Communications Biology (Apr 2021)
Variation in personality can substitute for social feedback in coordinated animal movements
Abstract
Planas-Sitjà, Deneubourg and Cronin use a theoretical approach to examine the importance of personality and feedback in the emergence of collective movement decisions in animal groups. Using a simulation of Capuchin monkey data they show that variation in personality dramatically influences collective decisions as well as replaces feedback depending on the directionality of relationships among individuals.