Scaling in animal group-size distributions.
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group-size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with data that describe the group-size distributions of tuna fish, sardinellas, and African buffaloes.
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Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. bonabeau@santafe.edu
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Fréon
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D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D017753:Ecosystem; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012919:Social Behavior