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Relative Importance of Social Status and Physiological Need in Determining Leadership in a Social Forager

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Authors

Ost, Markus

Jaatinen, Kim

Publisher

Public Library of Science

Abstract

Group decisions on the timing of mutually exclusive activities pose a dilemma: monopolized decision-making by a single leader compromises the optimal timing of activities by the others, while independent decision-making by all group members undermines gro

Keywords

Keywords: aggressiveness; article; body constitution; body size; breeding; duck; female; forager; foraging behavior; leadership; nonhuman; predator prey interaction; prediction; probability; rearing; social aspect; social behavior; social dominance; social status

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/65405

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science)

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0064778

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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