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Provedor de dados: | 17
País: | United Kingdom
Título: | Collective Animal Behavior from Bayesian Estimation and Probability Matching
Autores: | Alfonso Perez-Escudero; Gonzalo de Polavieja.
Data: | 2011-05-05
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Ecology.
Resumo: | Animals living in groups make movement decisions that depend, among other factors, on social interactions with other group members. Our present understanding of social rules in animal collectives is based on empirical fits to observations and we lack first-principles approaches that allow their derivation. Here we show that patterns of collective decisions can be derived from the basic ability of animals to make probabilistic estimations in the presence of uncertainty. We build a decision-making model with two stages: Bayesian estimation and probabilistic matching.&amp;#xd;&amp;#xa;In the first stage, each animal makes a Bayesian estimation of which behavior is best to perform taking into account personal information about the environment and social information collected by observing the behaviors of other animals. In the probability matching stage, each animal chooses a behavior with a probability given by the Bayesian estimation that this behavior is the most appropriate one. This model derives very simple rules of interaction in animal collectives that depend only on two types of reliability parameters, one that each animal assigns to the other animals and another given by the quality of the non-social information. We test our model by obtaining theoretically a rich set of observed collective patterns of decisions in three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus, a shoaling fish species. The quantitative link shown between probabilistic estimation and collective rules of behavior allows a better contact with other fields such as foraging, mate selection, neurobiology and psychology, and gives predictions for experiments directly testing the relationship between estimation and collective behavior.
Tipo: | Manuscript

Identificador:

http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5939/version/1

oai:nature.com:10101/npre.2011.5939.1

http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2011.5939.1

Fonte: | Nature Precedings
Fonte: | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License