Graded leadership by dominant animals in a herd of female beef cattle on pasture

By R. Šárová, M. Špinka, J. Panamá, Petr Simecek. 2010

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Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population (2014, background): “Although leadership has frequently been attributed with experience and dominance (Reebs 2000; Šárová et al. 2010; Bode et al. 2012), evidence is emerging that leaders may also differ in terms of their personality (Johnstone and Manica 2011).”
The impact of social networks on animal collective motion (2011, result): “The notion of socially mediated leadership is supported by a study, unrelated to hierarchical dynamics in pigeons, showing that dominant beef cows, Bos taurus, have more influence on herd movement than more subordinate cows ( Sárová et al. 2010).”
A rule-of-thumb based on social affiliation explains collective movements in desert baboons (2011, background): “Such ‘embedded leadership’, in which leader-follower dynamics are embedded in networks of interindividual relationships (King & Sueur 2011), may therefore explain why those individuals with the strongest social ties to other group members, such as dominant individuals (Sarova et al. 2010), elder fem”