Group decision making in fission-fusion societies: Evidence from two-field experiments in Bechstein's bats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1602, 2006, Pages 2785-2790

  Kerth, Gerald ^a,b,c   Ebert, Cornelia ^d   Schmidtke, Christine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group coordination; Information transfer; Myotis bechsteinii; Roost selection; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

BAT; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; ROOSTING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; MYOTIS BECHSTEINII; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI;

EID: 33750574387     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3647     Document Type: Article

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