From the first intention movement to the last joiner: Macaques combine mimetic rules to optimize their collective decisions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1712, 2011, Pages 1697-1704

  Sueur, C ^a,b,c   Deneubourg, J L ^a   Petit, O ^a,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IPHC   (France)

Author keywords

Collective movement; Primates; Quorum response; Self organization; Social amplification; Voting process

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INSECT; MOVEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PRIMATE; SELF ORGANIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTEBRATE; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MACACA; MACACA TONKEANA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955404597     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2084     Document Type: Article

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