Allelomimetic synchronization in Merino sheep

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1443-1454

  Gautrais, Jacques ^a   Michelena, Pablo ^a   Sibbald, Angela ^b   Bon, Richard ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

activity synchronization; allelomimetism; continuous time Markov chain; decision making; Merino sheep; positive feedback; sheep; stochastic process; ungulate

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; GROUP SIZE; MARKOV CHAIN; PROBABILITY; SHEEP; STOCHASTICITY; SYNCHRONY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 35848945493     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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