Negotiation may lead selfish individuals to cooperate: The example of the collective vigilance game

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1739, 2012, Pages 2862-2867

  Sirot, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Cooperation; Evolutionarily stable strategies; Game theory; Negotiation; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION RISK; VIGILANCE;

EID: 84862128079     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0097     Document Type: Article

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