A rule-of-thumb based on social affiliation explains collective movements in desert baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1337-1345

  King, Andrew J ^a   Sueur, Cedric ^b,c   Huchard, Elise ^d,e   Cowlishaw, Guy ^f  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chacma baboon; Collective behaviour; Grooming; Heuristics; Papio ursinus; Rule of thumb

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DESERT; HEURISTICS; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; SELF ORGANIZATION; SIGNALING; SLEEP; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 82355190248     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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