Modelling and tracking the flight dynamics of flocking pigeons based on real GPS data (small flock)

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• 作者：Ayham Zaitouny^a ; ^b ; ^{ayham.zaitouny@research.uwa.edu.au} ; ^{zaitounyayham@yahoo.com} ; Thomas Stemler^a ; Michael Small^a ; ^b
• 关键词：Animal behaviour ; Animal movement ; Flocking ; Nonlinear model ; Tracking ; GPS
• 刊名：Ecological Modelling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：24 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：344
• 期：Complete
• 页码：62-72
• 全文大小：5392 K
• 卷排序：344

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A nonlinear model to track the behaviour of a small flock of pigeons using real data. We prove that the dynamics of a pigeon are composed of two mechanisms: global-local. One component dominates the total behaviour based on the distance from the mass centre.