Collective decision-making in white-faced capuchin monkeys

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3495-3503

  Petit, O ^a,b   Gautrais, J ^a   Leca, J B ^a,c   Theraulaz, G ^a   Deneubourg, J L ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cebus capucinus; Cohesion; Collective movements; Leadership; Mimetism; Quorum

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAMWORK; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; CEBUS CAPUCINUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

EID: 70349627032     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0983     Document Type: Article

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