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

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2013

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Ost, Markus
Jaatinen, Kim

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Public Library of Science

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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

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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

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PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science)

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2037-12-31