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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
44 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
twitter
284 X users
facebook
12 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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439 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
683 Mendeley
citeulike
5 CiteULike
Title
Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons
Published in
Science, June 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.aaa5099
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Damien R Farine, Iain D Couzin, Margaret C Crofoot

Abstract

Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with stratified social relationships. Tracking wild baboons with a high-resolution global positioning system and analyzing their movements relative to one another reveals that a process of shared decision-making governs baboon movement. Rather than preferentially following dominant individuals, baboons are more likely to follow when multiple initiators agree. When conflicts arise over the direction of movement, baboons choose one direction over the other when the angle between them is large, but they compromise if it is not. These results are consistent with models of collective motion, suggesting that democratic collective action emerging from simple rules is widespread, even in complex, socially stratified societies.

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Senegal 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Other 9 1%
Unknown 653 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 154 23%
Researcher 109 16%
Student > Bachelor 77 11%
Student > Master 74 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 48 7%
Other 115 17%
Unknown 106 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 274 40%
Environmental Science 65 10%
Psychology 42 6%
Social Sciences 29 4%
Computer Science 24 4%
Other 112 16%
Unknown 137 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 603. 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 17 January 2024.
All research outputs
#38,096
of 25,563,770 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,592
of 83,118 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#297
of 279,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#22
of 1,375 outputs
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