Predicting leadership using nutrient requirements and dominance rank of group members

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 457-470

  Sueur, Cédric ^a,b,c   MacIntosh, Andrew J J ^d   Jacobs, Armand T ^a,b,d   Watanabe, Kunio ^d   Petit, Odile ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collective movement; Decision making; Dominance hierarchy; Energetic; Foragers; Group movement; Modeling; Nutrition; Primates; Sociality; Trade off

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LEADERSHIP; MOVEMENT; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84873991602     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1466-5     Document Type: Article

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