Reaching a Consensus: Terminology and Concepts Used in Coordination and Decision-Making Research

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1268-1278

  Pyritz, Lennart W ^a   King, Andrew J ^b   Sueur, Cédric ^c,d   Fichtel, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Free University of Brussels ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal groups; Coordination; Decision making; Terminology

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; RESEARCH WORK; TERMINOLOGY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 82555194132     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-011-9524-9     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Boinski, S. (1991). The coordination of spatial position: A field study of the vocal behaviour of adult female squirrel monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 41, 89-102.
2. Bourjade, M., & Sueur, C. (2010). Shared or unshared consensus to move collectively? Towards methodological concerns. Behavioural Processes, 84, 648-652.
3. Bourjade, M., Thierry, B., Maumy, M., & Petit, O. (2009). Decision-making in Przewalski horses (Equus ferus przewalskii) is driven by the ecological contexts of collective movements. Ethology, 115, 321-330.
4. Bousquet, C. A. H., Sumpter, D. J. T., & Manser, M. B. (2010). Moving calls: A vocal mechanism underlying quorum decisions in cohesive groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. doi: 10. 1098/rspb. 2010. 1739.
5. Camazine, S., Deneubourg, J. L., Franks, N. R., Sneyd, J., Theraulaz, G., & Bonabeau, E. (2001). Self-organization in biological systems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
6. Conradt, L., & Roper, T. J. (2003). Group decision-making in animals. Nature, 421, 155-158.
7. Conradt, L., & Roper, T. J. (2005). Consensus decision making in animals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 20, 449-456.
8. Conradt, L., & List, C. (2009). Introduction. Group decisions in humans and animals: A survey. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 364, 719-742.
9. Couzin, I. D., Krause, J., James, R., Ruxton, G. D., & Franks, N. R. (2002). Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 218, 1-11.
10. Deneubourg, J. L., & Goss, S. (1989). Collective patterns and decision-making. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, 1, 295-311.
11. Erhart, E. M., & Overdorff, D. J. (1999). Female coordination of group travel in wild Propithecus and Eulemur. International Journal of Primatology, 20, 927-941.
12. Feist, J. D., & McCullough, D. R. (1976). Behaviour patterns and communication in feral horses. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 41, 337-371.
13. Fichtel, C., Pyritz, L., & Kappeler, P. M. (2011). Coordination of group movements in non-human primates. In M. Boos, M. Kolbe, S. Ellwart, & P. M. Kappeler (Eds.), Coordination in human and non-human primate groups (pp. 37-56). Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer.
14. Fischer, J., & Zinner, D. (2011). Communication and cognition in primate group movement. International Journal of Primatology, 32.
15. Franks, N. R., Pratt, S. C., Mallon, E. B., Britton, N. F., & Sumpter, D. J. T. (2002). Information flow, opinion polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 357, 1567-1583.
16. Harcourt, J. L., Ang, T. Z., Sweetman, G., Johnstone, R. A., & Manica, A. (2009). Social feedback and the emergence of leaders and followers. Current Biology, 19, 248-252.
17. Jacobs, A. (2010). Group cohesiveness during collective movements: Travelling apart together. Behavioural Processes, 84, 678-680.
18. Jacobs, A., Maumy, M., & Petit, O. (2008). The influence of social organisation on leadership in brown lemurs (Eulemur fulvus fulvus) in a controlled environment. Behavioural Processes, 79, 111-113.
19. Kerth, G. (2010). Group decision-making in fission-fusion societies. Behavioural Processes, 84, 662-663.
20. King, A. J. (2010). Follow me! I'm a leader if you do; I'm a failed initiator if you don't. Behavioural Processes, 84, 671-674.
21. King, A. J., & Cowlishaw, G. (2009). Leaders, followers and group decision-making. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2, 147-150.
22. King, A. J., & Sueur, C. (2011). Where next? Group coordination and collective decision-making by primates. International Journal of Primatology, 32.
23. King, A. J., Douglas, C. M. S., Huchard, E., Isaac, N. J. B., & Cowlishaw, G. (2008). Dominance and affiliation mediate despotism in a social primate. Current Biology, 18, 1833-1838.
24. King, A. J., Johnson, D. D. P., & van Vugt, M. (2009). The origins and evolution of leadership. Current Biology, 19, 911-916.
25. Kummer, H. (1968). The coordination of travel. In Social organization of hamadryas baboons: A field study (pp. 122-156). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
26. Leca, J. B., Gunst, N., Thierry, B., & Petit, O. (2003). Distributed leadership in semi-free ranging white-faced capuchin monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 66, 1045-1052.
27. Matsumura, S. (1999). The evolution of "egalitarian" and "despotic" social systems among macaques. Primates, 40, 23-31.
28. Meunier, H., Leca, J. B., Deneubourg, J. L., & Petit, O. (2006). Group movement decisions in capuchin monkeys: The utility of an experimental study and a mathematical model to explore the relationship between individual and collective behaviours. Behaviour, 143, 1511-1527.
29. Noser, R., & Byrne, R. W. (2007). Travel routes and planning of visits to out-of-sight resources in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). Animal Behaviour, 73, 257-266.
30. Petit, O., & Bon, R. (2010). Decision-making processes: The case of collective movements. Behavioural Processes, 84, 635-647.
31. Petit, O., Gautrais, J., Leca, J. B., Theraulaz, G., & Deneubourg, J. L. (2009). Collective decision-making in white-faced capuchins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 276, 3495-3503.
32. Pillot, M. H., Gautrais, J., Gouello, J., Michelena, P., Sibbald, A., & Bon, R. (2010). Moving together: Incidental leaders and naïve followers. Behavioural Processes, 83, 235-241.
33. Prins, H. H. T. (1996). Ecology and behaviour of the African buffalo. London: Chapman and Hall.
34. Pyritz, L., Fichtel, C., & Kappeler, P. (2010). Conceptual and methodological issues in the comparative study of collective group movements. Behavioural Processes, 84, 681-684.
35. Pyritz, L. et al. (2011). Coordination of group movements in wild red-fronted lemurs: Processes and influence of ecological and reproductive seasonality. International Journal of Primatology, 32.
36. Ramseyer, A., Petit, O., & Thierry, B. (2009a). Patterns of group movements in juvenile domestic geese. Journal of Ethology, 27, 369-375.
37. Ramseyer, A., Boissy, A., Dumont, B., & Thierry, B. (2009b). Decision making in group departures of sheep is a continuous process. Animal Behaviour, 78, 71-78.
38. Ramseyer, A., Thierry, B., Boissy, A., & Dumont, B. (2009c). Decision-making processes in group departures of cattle. Ethology, 115, 948-957.
39. Reinhardt, V., Reinhardt, A., & Houser, D. (1987). Prompted progression order in a troop of captive rhesus monkeys. Folia Primatologica, 48, 121-124.
40. Seeley, T. D., Visscher, P. K., & Passino, K. M. (2006). Group decision making in honey bee swarms. American Scientist, 94, 220-229.
41. Sellers, W. I., Hill, R. A., & Logan, B. S. (2007). An agent-based model of group decision making in baboons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 362, 1699-1710.
42. Stueckle, S., & Zinner, D. (2008). To follow or not to follow: Decision making and leadership during the morning departure in chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1995-2004.
43. Sueur, C., & Petit, O. (2008a). Shared or unshared consensus decision in macaques? Behavioural Processes, 78, 84-92.
44. Sueur, C., & Petit, O. (2008b). Organization of group members at departure is driven by social structure in Macaca. International Journal of Primatology, 29, 1085-1098.
45. Sueur, C., & Petit, O. (2010). Signals use by leaders in Macaca tonkeana and Macaca mulatta: Group-mate recruitment and behaviour monitoring. Animal Cognition, 13, 239-248.
46. Sueur, C., & Deneubourg, J-L. (2011). Self-organization in primates: Understanding the rules underlying collective movements. International Journal of Primatology, 32.
47. Sueur, C., Petit, O., & Deneubourg, J. L. (2009). Selective mimetism at departure in collective movements of Macaca tonkeana: An experimental and theoretical combination of mimetic rules in macaques. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1087-1095.
48. Sueur, C., Deneubourg, J.-L., & Petit, O. (2010). From the first intention movement to the last joiner: Macaques combine mimetic rules to optimize their collective decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. doi: 10. 1098/rspb. 2010. 2084.
49. Sumpter, D. J. (2006). The principles of collective animal behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 361, 5-22.
50. Trillmich, J., Fichtel, C., & Kappeler, P. M. (2004). Coordination of group movements in wild Verreux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi). Behaviour, 141, 1103-1120.
51. Ward, A. J. W., Sumpter, D. J. T., Couzin, I. D., Hart, P. J. B., & Krause, J. (2008). Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 6948-6953.
52. Wrangham, R. W. (2000). Why are male chimpanzees more gregarious than mothers? A scramble competition hypothesis. In P. M. Kappeler (Ed.), Primate males. Causes and consequences of variation in group composition (pp. 248-258). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.