Communications Biology (Apr 2021)

Variation in personality can substitute for social feedback in coordinated animal movements

  • Isaac Planas-Sitjà,
  • Jean-Louis Deneubourg,
  • Adam L. Cronin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01991-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.