Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species,
however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members …

This paper reviews the literature on leadership in vertebrate groups, including recent work
on human groups, before presenting the results of three new experiments looking at …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Flocking behaviour is often presented as an example of a self-organized process, where
individuals continuously negotiate on the direction of travel and compromise by moving …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Group-living animals routinely have to reach a consensus decision and choose between
mutually exclusive actions in order to coordinate their activities and benefit from sociality [1 …

Existing approaches within leadership studies often share a bias towards industrialized
societies and lack broader cross-cultural and ethological reference. Meanwhile, cross …

In animal groups, collective movements emerge from individual interactions. Biologists seek
to identify how characteristics of actors in these groups, and their relationships, influence the …

Besides focusing on the adaptive significance of collective movements, it is crucial to study
the mechanisms and dynamics of decision-making processes at the individual level …

In groups of animals only a small proportion of individuals may possess particular
information, such as a migration route or the direction to a resource. Individuals may differ in …