Leadership and Path Characteristics during Walks Are Linked to Dominance Order and Individual Traits in Dogs

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ákos, Zsuzsa ^a   Beck, Róbert ^a   Nagy, Máté ^a,b,c   Vicsek, Tamás ^a,b   Kubinyi, Eniko ^b,d  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group of HAS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MTA ELTE COMPARATIVE ETHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; DECISION SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; JOINT MOTION; PATH CHARACTERISTIC; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

SURVEYS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RUNNING DISTANCE; RUNNING SPEED; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; WALKING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOGS; GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84896714783     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003446     Document Type: Article

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