Initiative, personality and leadership in pairs of foraging fish.

Studies of coordinated movement have found that, in many animal species, bolder individuals are more likely to initiate movement and shyer individuals to follow. Here, we show that in pairs of foraging stickleback fish, leadership is not merely a passive consequence of temperamental differences. Ins...

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Main Authors: Shinnosuke Nakayama, Jennifer L Harcourt, Rufus A Johnstone, Andrea Manica
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3342251?pdf=render