Social Network Influences Decision Making During Collective Movements in Brown Lemurs (Eulemur fulvus fulvus)

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 721-736

  Jacobs, Armand ^a,b   Sueur, Cédric ^a,b,c,d   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c   Petit, Odile ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Agent based model; Decision making; Eulemur fulvus; Self organization; Social network

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KINSHIP; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; SELF ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; EULEMUR FULVUS; EULEMUR FULVUS FULVUS; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 79955526332     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-011-9497-8     Document Type: Article

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