Modeling warfare in social animals: a "chemical" approach.

We present here a general method for modelling the dynamics of battles among social animals. The proposed method exploits the procedures widely used to model chemical reactions, but still uncommon in behavioural studies. We applied this methodology to the interpretation of experimental observations...

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Main Authors: Alisa Santarlasci, Gianluca Martelloni, Filippo Frizzi, Giacomo Santini, Franco Bagnoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4219847?pdf=render