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Increased Exploration Capacity Promotes Group Fission in Gregarious Foraging Herbivores

Many gregarious species display rapid fission-fusion dynamics with individuals frequently leaving their groups to reunite or to form new ones soon after. The adaptive value of such ephemeral associations might reflect a frequent tilt in the balance between the costs and benefits of maintaining group...

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Autores principales: Lardy, Sophie, Fortin, Daniel, Pays, Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27907143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167516