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Drivers of Variation in the Optimal Spatial Structure of Collective Information Gatherers
R. S. Walker, G. Ramos-Fernandez, D. Boyer +3
Collective systems that self-organise to maximise the group's ability to collect and distribute information can be successful in environments with high spatial and temporal variati…
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Ross S. Walker, Matthew J. Silk +2
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members…
Evidence for biological Lévy flights stands
Denis Boyer, Octavio Miramontes, Gabriel Ramos-Fernández
Edwards et al. [Nature 449, 1044-1048 (2007)] revisited well-known studies reporting power-laws in the frequency distribution of flight duration of wandering albatrosses, and concl…
Modeling the Searching Behavior of Social Monkeys
D. Boyer, O. Miramontes, G. Ramos-Fernández +2
We discuss various features of the trajectories of spider monkeys looking for food in a tropical forest, as observed recently in an extensive {\it in situ} study. Some of the featu…