Social networks improve leaderless group navigation by facilitating long-distance communication

Social networks improve leaderless group navigation by facilitating long-distance communication

Group navigation is of great importance for many animals, such as migrating flocks of birds or shoals of fish. One theory states that group membership can improve navigational accuracy compared to limited or less accurate individual navigational ability in groups without leaders (“Many-wrongs princi...

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Main Author: Nikolai W. F. BODE, A. Jamie WOOD, Daniel W. FRANKS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2012-04-01
Series:Current Zoology
Subjects:
Collective motion
Social networks
Group navigation
Network motifs
Many-wrongs principle
Individual-based model
Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12010

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