Fission-fusion bat behavior as a strategy for balancing the conflicting needs of maximizing information accuracy and minimizing infection risk

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 318, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-109

  Kashima, Kazutaka ^a   Ohtsuki, Hisashi ^b   Satake, Akiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Group decision; Nest choice; SIS model; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FITNESS; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; ROOSTING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISSION FUSION BEHAVIOR; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP PROCESSES; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870548767     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.10.034     Document Type: Article

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