Scalable rules for coherent group motion in a gregarious vertebrate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pillot, Marie Hélène ^a,b   Gautrais, Jacques ^a   Arrufat, Patrick ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^c   Bon, Richard ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GROUP DYNAMICS; LEADERSHIP; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEAMWORK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; MOTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; LEADERSHIP; MOTION; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79251549774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014487     Document Type: Article

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