What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

By A. Flack, Benjamin Pettit, Robin Freeman, T. Guilford, D. Biro. 2012

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Mirroring and beyond: coupled dynamics as a generalized framework for modelling social interactions (2016, background): “For example, in pairs of homing pigeons, the more experienced pigeon makes navigational choices faster and becomes the leader [58].”
A collective navigation hypothesis for homeward migration in anadromous salmonids (2016, background): “Homing pigeons return more efficiently when released as groups than they do as individuals (Biro et al. 2006; Dell’Ariccia et al. 2008), and birds with less information can benefit from following others (Flack et al. 2012).”