Group living enhances individual resources discrimination: The use of public information by cockroaches to assess shelter quality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Canonge, Stéphane ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Sempo, Grégory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROUP DYNAMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959309827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019748     Document Type: Article

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