Modeling the searching behavior of social monkeys

D. Boyer, O. Miramontes, G. Ramos-Fernández, J.L. Mateos and G. Cocho

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 342, issue 1, 329-335

Abstract: We discuss various features of the trajectories of spider monkeys looking for food in a tropical forest, as observed recently in an extensive in situ study. Some of the features observed can be interpreted as the result of social interactions. In addition, a simple model of deterministic walk in a random environment reproduces the observed angular correlations between successive steps, and in some cases, the emergence of Lévy distributions for the length of the steps.

Keywords: Biological physics; Foraging; Random walks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.091

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