Collective movements, initiation and stops: Diversity of situations and law of parsimony

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 657-661

  Pillot, M H ^a,b   Deneubourg, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collective movement; Decision making; Sheep

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEADERSHIP; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; REST; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESSES; MOVEMENT;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77953914129     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.02.024     Document Type: Article

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