Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75106, Sweden.
Curr Biol. 2015 Dec 7;25(23):R1127-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.031.
A new study has decoded which birds become leaders in homing pigeon flocks, finding an unexpected benefit of leadership: faster birds emerge as leaders, and these leaders learn more about their environment than their followers.
一项新的研究解码了哪些鸟类在信鸽群中成为领导者,发现了领导地位的一个意外好处:飞得更快的鸟会成为领导者,而这些领导者比它们的追随者更了解周围的环境。