Individual performance in complex social systems: The greylag goose example

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 121-148

  Kotrschal, Kurt ^a,b   Scheiber, Isabella B R ^a   Hirschenhauser, Katharina ^c  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MPI for Ornithology ^*  (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02624-9_5     Document Type: Chapter

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