Scaling in animal group-size distributions

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Abstract

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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Bonabeau, E., Dagorn, L., & Préon, P. (1999). Scaling in animal group-size distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96(8), 4472–4477. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.8.4472

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