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SUBMITTER: Strandburg-Peshkin A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4801504 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Strandburg-Peshkin Ariana A Farine Damien R DR Couzin Iain D ID Crofoot Margaret C MC
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150601 6241
Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with stratified social relationships. Tracking wild baboons with a high-resolution global positioning system and analyzing their movements relative to one another reveals that a process of shared decision-making governs baboon movement. Rather than preferentially following dominant individuals, baboons are more likely to follow whe ...[more]