... no competing financial interests. 25 4 2014 18 6 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Alarm pheromone Collective decision-making Temnothorax In many taxa, from slime molds to humans, groups cooperatively process information to achieve collective...

... interests declared. 7 11 2012 11 12 2012 © 2013. 2013 pigeon collective decision-making route learning leadership social relationships Individuals in many bird species obtain a variety of benefits from moving collectively ( Krause and Ruxton, 2002 ). Although in pigeons...

... in social insect colonies ( Robson and Traniello, 1999 ). Our study highlights a new instance of a self-organised biological process in which all individuals do not contribute equally to the collective outcome, i.e. multiple-choice collective decision-making in an invertebrate. This contrasts...