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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