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Football playing bumblebees show how complex insect learning can be

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017

Democratic decisions by animal groups give better average outcomes than decisions by a despot

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017

Great decision accuracy can be achieved by groups through individuals having local interactions without communication

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017

Bat groups are willing to split up rather than everyone go with the majority decision

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017

Groups of animals can stay together and make fast and accurate decisions if each individual mostly goes with the majority

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017

To better understand the behaviour of animals we need to combine two approaches: understanding why they make decisions and how they make decisions

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017

Understanding the interactions between individual animals requires appreciating that they have flexible responses to each other, rather than have fixed behaviour

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017

Conflicts between animals may be decided by which is bigger, but also by some ‘convention’, such as who found a resource first, that enables animals to avoid fighting too much

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017

Conflicts between animals are usually settled without injury, but such ritualised harmless fighting has evolved because it is good for individuals, not for the “survival of the species”

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017

Animals may act to reduce their own fitness if the act has a big benefit to relatives

Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017

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