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Getting a head start: the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, tune foraging decision to motivational asymmetry when faced with competition
Eilidh Stirrup, David Lusseau
Slime mould plasmodia can adjust their behaviour in response to chemical trails left by themselves and other Physarum plasmodia. This simple feedback process increases their foragi…
A global assessment of tourism and recreation conservation threats to prioritise interventions
David Lusseau, Francesca Mancini
We are increasingly using nature for tourism and recreation, an economic sector now generating more than 10% of the global GDP and 10% of global total employment. This growth thoug…
Quantum-like perception entanglement leads to advantageous collective decisions
David Lusseau
Social animals have to make collective decisions on a daily basis. In most instances, these decisions are taken by consensus, when the group does what the majority of individuals w…
Incorporating uncertainty into the study of animal social networks
David Lusseau, Hal Whitehead, Shane Gero
Over the past decade network theory has been applied successfully to the study of a variety of complex adaptive systems. However, the application of these techniques to non-human s…
The emergence of unshared consensus decisions in bottlenose dolphins
David Lusseau, Larissa Conradt
Unshared consensus decision-making processes, in which one or a small number of individuals make the decision for the rest of a group, are rarely documented. However, this mechanis…
Evidence for social role in a dolphin social network
David Lusseau
Social animals have to take into consideration the behaviour of conspecifics when making decisions to go by their daily lives. These decisions affect their fitness and there is the…
Identifying the role that individual animals play in their social network
David Lusseau, M. E. J. Newman
Techniques recently developed for the analysis of human social networks are applied to the social network of bottlenose dolphins living in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. We identify…