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Modeling the Searching Behavior of Social Monkeys

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

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/0311252

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.

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