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| Title |
Red deer synchronise their activity with close neighbours
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| Published in |
PeerJ, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.7717/peerj.344 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sean A. Rands, Hayley Muir, Naomi L. Terry |
| Abstract |
Models of collective animal behaviour frequently make assumptions about the effects of neighbours on the behaviour of focal individuals, but these assumptions are rarely tested. One such set of assumptions is that the switch between active and inactive behaviour seen in herding animals is influenced by the activity of close neighbours, where neighbouring animals show a higher degree of behavioural synchrony than would be expected by chance. We tested this assumption by observing the simultaneous behaviour of paired individuals within a herd of red deer Cervus elaphus. Focal individuals were more synchronised with their two closest neighbours than with the third closest or randomly selected individuals from the herd. Our results suggest that the behaviour of individual deer is influenced by immediate neighbours. Even if we assume that there are no social relationships between individuals, this suggests that the assumptions made in models about the influence of neighbours may be appropriate. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 27% |
| Japan | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 64% |
| Scientists | 4 | 36% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 45 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 41 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 20% |
| Researcher | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 16% |
| Other | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 42% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 11% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 16% |
| Unknown | 7 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 August 2016.
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#4,039,453
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#3,894
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#38,764
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Outputs of similar age from PeerJ
#59
of 140 outputs
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