Personality and collective decision-making in foraging herbivores

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1684, 2010, Pages 1093-1099

  Michelena, Pablo ^a   Jeanson, Raphaël ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Sibbald, Angela M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boldness; Cohesion; Collective behaviours; Sheep; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHEEP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77950839182     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1926     Document Type: Article

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