Coordinated Behaviour in Pigeon Flocks

Yomosa, Makoto; Mizuguchi, Tsuyoshi; Vásárhelyi, Gábor; Nagy, Mate

Coordinated Behaviour in Pigeon Flocks

Dateien

Yomosa_0-310862.pdf(3.25 MB)

Datum

2015

Autor:innen

Yomosa, Makoto

Mizuguchi, Tsuyoshi

Vásárhelyi, Gábor

Nagy, Mate

Publikationstyp

Zeitschriftenartikel

Publikationsstatus

Published

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PLOS ONE ; 10 (2015), 10. - e0140558. - eISSN 1932-6203

Zusammenfassung

We analysed pigeon flock flights using GPS trajectory data to reveal the most important kinematic aspects of flocking behaviour. We quantitatively investigated the internal motion of the flock based on pairwise statistics and found the following general relationships in all datasets: i) the temporal order of decisions characterised by the delay between directional changes is strictly related to the spatial order characterised by the longitudinal relative position within the flock; ii) during circling motion, pigeons use a mixture of two idealised and fundamentally different turning strategies, namely, parallel-path and equal-radius type turning. While pigeons tend to maintain their relative position within the flock on average, as in the parallel-path approximation, those who turn later also get behind as in the equal-radius case. Equal-radius type turning also tends to be expressed more during smaller radius turns.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

Schlagwörter

Bird flight, Pigeons, Flight (biology), Birds, Velocity, Motion, Homing behavior, Radii

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YOMOSA, Makoto, Tsuyoshi MIZUGUCHI, Gábor VÁSÁRHELYI, Mate NAGY, 2015. Coordinated Behaviour in Pigeon Flocks. In: PLOS ONE. 10(10), e0140558. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140558

BibTex

@article{Yomosa2015Coord-33237,
  year={2015},
  doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0140558},
  title={Coordinated Behaviour in Pigeon Flocks},
  number={10},
  volume={10},
  journal={PLOS ONE},
  author={Yomosa, Makoto and Mizuguchi, Tsuyoshi and Vásárhelyi, Gábor and Nagy, Mate},
  note={Article Number: e0140558}
}

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