Animal Synchrony and agents' segregation

Autor:	Schaposnik, Laura P., Hsu, Sheryl, Dunbar, Robin I. M.
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Physics - Physics and Society Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In recent years it has become evident the need of understanding how failure of coordination imposes constraints on the size of stable groups that highly social mammals can live in. We examine here the forces that keep animals together as a herd and others that drive them apart. Different phenotypes (e.g. genders) have different rates of gut fill, causing them to spend different amounts of time performing activities. By modeling a group as a set of semi-coupled oscillators on a disc, we show that the members of the group may become less and less coupled until the group dissolves and breaks apart. We show that when social bonding creates a stickiness, or gravitational pull, between pairs of individuals, fragmentation is reduced. Comment: Dedicated to Prof. Fidel A. Schaposnik on the occasion of his 75th birthday
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07505 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv