THE glass ceiling that keeps high-flying women from many of the top jobs is no obstacle for elephants, reindeer and sheep. In herd mammals like these, it’s often the females that lead the pack. A new insight into the group dynamics of herding, and why particular individuals take the lead, hints at why this might be.
of the University of Sussex in the UK and her colleagues used a computer model to simulate the behaviour of a group of animals in which there is conflict between individuals over the destinations they want to move towards. In the…
