Toward an individual-level understanding of vigilance: The role of social information

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 532-538

  Jackson, Andrew L ^a,b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Computational model; Group living; Information transfer; Network

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GROUP SIZE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATOR CONTROL; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33745587314     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj060     Document Type: Article

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