To follow or not to follow: decision making and leadership during the morning departure in chacma baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1995-2004

  Stueckle, Sabine ^a   Zinner, Dietmar ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

chacma baboon; collective movement; consensus; decision making; leadership; Papio hamadryas ursinus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLLECTIVE ACTION; DECISION MAKING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

AFRICA; DE HOOP NATURE RESERVE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 44349089782     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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