ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020
Guppies Prefer to Follow Large (Robot) Leaders Irrespective of Own Size.
Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Unveiling social distancing mechanisms via a fish-robot hybrid interaction.Biological cybernetics · 2021Review
- The Potential for Physiological Performance Curves to Shape Environmental Effects on Social Behavior.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Guppies Prefer to Follow Large (Robot) Leaders Irrespective of Own Size.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
- The Logic of Interactive Biorobotics.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Body size is often assumed to determine how successfully an individual can lead others with larger individuals being better leaders than smaller ones. But even if larger individuals are more readily followed, body size often correlates with specific behavioral patterns and it is thus unclear whether larger individuals are more often followed than smaller ones because of their size or because they behave in a certain way. To control for behavioral differences among differentially-sized leaders, we used biomimetic robotic fish (Robofish) of different sizes. Live guppies (
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