title: Collective Behaviour: Leadership and Learning in Flocks.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75106, Sweden. Electronic address: James.herbert.read@gmail.com.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herbert-Read
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning