Decision-making processes in group departures of cattle

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 948-957

  Ramseyer, Amandine ^a,b,c   Thierry, Bernard ^b   Boissy, Alain ^a   Dumont, Bertrand ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DECISION MAKING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 69949100686     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01686.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Altmann, J. 1974 : Observational study of behaviour: sampling methods. Behaviour 49, 227 265.
2. Aubé, F. Shield, R. 2004 : Modeling the effect of leadership on crowd flow dynamics. Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 3305, 601 611.
3. Black, J.M. 1988 : Preflight signaling in swans: a mechanism for group cohesion and flock formation. Ethology 79, 143 157.
4. Boinski, S. 1996 : Vocal coordination of troop movement in squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedi and S. sciureus) and white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). In : Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates (Norconk, M. A., Rosenberger, A. L. Garber, P. A., eds). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 251 269.
5. Boissy, A. Dumont, B. 2002 : Interactions between social and feeding motivations on the grazing behaviour of herbivores: sheep more easily split into subgroups with familiar peers. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 79, 233 245.
6. Bouissou, M. F. Andrieu, S. 1977 : Établissement des relations préférentielles chez les bovins domestiques. Behaviour 114, 1 2.
7. Bourjade, M., Thierry, B., Maumy, M. Petit, O. 2009 : Decision-making in Przewalski horses (Equus ferus Przewalskii) is driven by the ecological contexts of collective movements. Ethology 115, 321 330.
8. Camazine, S., Deneubourg, J. L., Franks, N. R., Sneyd, J., Theraulaz, G. Bonabeau, E. 2001 : Self-organization in Biological Systems. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
9. Conradt, L. Roper, T. J. 2003 : Group decision-making in animals. Nature 421, 155 158.
10. Conradt, L. Roper, T. J. 2005 : Consensus decision making in animals. Trends Ecol. Evol. 20, 449 456.
11. Couzin, I. D., Krause, J., Franks, N. R. Levin, S. A. 2005 : Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move. Nature 433, 513 516.
12. Côté, S. D. Festa-Bianchet, M. 2001 : Offspring sex ratio in relation to maternal age and social rank in mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49, 260 265.
13. Dostálková, Špinka. 2007 : Synchronization of behaviour in pairs: the role of communication and consequences in timing. Anim. Behav. 74, 1735 1742.
14. Dumont, B., Boissy, A., Achard, C., Sibbald, A. M. Erhard, H. W. 2005 : Consistency of animal order in spontaneous group movements allows the measurement of leadership in a group of grazing heifers. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 95, 55 66.
15. Dyer, J. R. G., Johansson, A., Helbing, D., Couzin, I. D. Krause, J. 2009 : Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in humans. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 781 789.
16. Fischhoff, I. R., Sundaresan, S. R., Cordingley, J., Larkin, H. M., Sellier, M. J. Rubenstein, D. I. 2007 : Social relationships and reproductive state influence leadership roles in movements of plains zebra, Equus burchellii. Anim. Behav. 73, 825 831.
17. Hemelrijk, C. K. 1990 : A matrix partial correlation test used in investigations of reciprocity and other social interaction patterns at group level. J. Theor. Biol. 143, 405 420.
18. Hölldobler, B. Wilson, E. O. 1990 : The Ants. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
19. Kummer, H. 1968 : Social Organization of Hamadryas Baboons. Karger, Basel.
20. Leca, J. B., Gunst, N., Thierry, B. Petit, O. 2003 : Distributed leadership in semi-free ranging white-faced capuchin monkeys. Anim. Behav. 66, 1045 1062.
21. Meunier, H., Deneubourg, J. L. Petit, O. 2008 : How many for dinner? Recruitment and monitoring by glances in capuchins. Primates 49, 26 31.
22. Prins, H. H. T. 1996 : Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo. Chapman & Hall, London.
23. Ramseyer, A., Boissy, A., Dumont, B. Thierry, B. 2009a : Decision-making in group departures of sheep is a continuous process. Anim. Behav. doi :.
24. Ramseyer, A., Petit, O. Thierry, B. 2009b : Patterns of group movements in juvenile domestic geese. J. Ethol. doi :.
25. Ramseyer, A., Petit, O. Thierry, B. 2009c : Decision-making in group departures of female domestic geese. Behaviour 146, 351 371.
26. Ramseyer, A., Boissy, A., Thierry, B. Dumont, B. 2009d : Individual and social determinants of spontaneous group movements in cattle and sheep. Animal doi :.
27. Raveling, D. G. 1969 : Preflight and flight behavior of Canada geese. Auk 86, 671 681.
28. Reinhardt, V. 1983 : Movement orders and leadership in a semi-wild cattle herd. Behaviour 83, 251 264.
29. Reinhardt, V. Reinhardt, A. 1981 : Cohesive relationships in a cattle herd (Bos indicus). Behaviour 77, 121 151.
30. de Schutter, G. 1997 : In : Collective intelligence among unrelated: how to share collective benefits or what do gulls do at night? In: Auto-organisation et Comportement (Theraulaz, G. Spitz, F., eds). Hermès, Paris, pp. 157 168.
31. Stewart, K. J. Harcourt, A. H. 1994 : Gorilla's vocalizations during rest periods: signals of impending departure? Behaviour 130, 29 40.
32. Stolba, A. 1979 : Entscheidungsfindung in Verbänden von Papio hamadryas. PhD Thesis Univ. of Zürich, Zürich.
33. de Vries, H. 1995 : A improved test of linearity in dominance hierarchies containing unknown or tied relationships. Anim. Behav. 50, 1375 1389.
34. de Vries, H., Netto, W. J. Hanegraaf, P. L. H. 1993 : Matman: a program for the analysis of sociometric matrices and behavioural transition matrices. Behaviour 125, 157 175.
35. Ward, P. Zahavi, A. 1973 : The importance of certain assemblages of birds as 'information-centres' for food finding. Ibis 115, 517 534.
36. Waring, G. H. 1983 : Horse Behavior. Noyes Publication, Park Ridge, NJ.