Temperament and hunger interact to determine the emergence of leaders in pairs of foraging fish.

Studies on leadership have focused either on physiological state as the key predictor (i.e. "leading according to need"), or else on temperamental asymmetries among group members (i.e. intrinsic leadership). In this paper, we explore how both factors interact in determining the emergence o...

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Main Authors: Shinnosuke Nakayama, 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/PMC3430686?pdf=render