Conceptual and methodological issues in the comparative study of collective group movements

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-684

  Pyritz, Lennart ^a   Fichtel, Claudia ^a   Kappeler, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Group coordination; Group movements; Leadership; Primates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LEADERSHIP; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77953913702     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.02.025     Document Type: Note

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