Moving together: Incidental leaders and naïve followers

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-241

  Pillot, Marie Hélène ^a,b   Gautrais, Jacques ^a   Gouello, Jeanne ^a   Michelena, Pablo ^b   sibbald, Angela ^c   Bon, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective movement; Decision making; Leadership; Ovis aries; Sheep

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEADERSHIP; PARADIGM SHIFT; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; GROUP DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEAMWORK;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77649338982     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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