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Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group performance than replacing shy individuals

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  • Noa Pinter-Wollmana
  • Brian Mi
  • Jonathan N. Pruitt

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Lay Summary Despite the high impact of keystone individuals, such as leaders, on group behavior, their identity appears to be immaterial. By repeatedly replacing the keystone individual in groups of social spiders, we show that it is sufficient to have a keystone individual to improve group performance when attacking prey but the keystone individual does not necessarily have to be a specific or familiar individual to serve its role.

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  • Noa Pinter-Wollmana & Brian Mi & Jonathan N. Pruitt, 2017. "Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group performance than replacing shy individuals," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(3), pages 883-889.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:3:p:883-889.
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    1. Daizaburo Shizuka & Allison E Johnson & Leigh Simmons, 2020. "How demographic processes shape animal social networks," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 31(1), pages 1-11.

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