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Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sumpter, David, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social behavior in animals.
Collective behavior.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Comportement collectif.
Comportement social chez les animaux.
Mass Behavior
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Coming Together; Chapter 3 Information Transfer; Chapter 4 Making Decisions; Chapter 5 Moving Together; Chapter 6 Synchronization; Chapter 7 Structures; Chapter 8 Regulation; Chapter 9 Complicated Interactions; Chapter 10 The Evolution of Co-operation; Chapter 11 Conclusions; References; Index.

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