What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 703-709

  Flack, Andrea ^a   Pettit, Benjamin ^a   Freeman, Robin ^a,b   Guilford, Tim ^a   Biro, Dora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Experience; Homing; Leadership; Pigeon; Social navigation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 84857044238     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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