About the Authors

Luca Giuggioli

Luca.Giuggioli@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliations Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jonathan R. Potts

Affiliations Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Stephen Harris

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided the biological insights on territorial species: SH. Performed research with inputs from LG: JRP. Conceived and designed the experiments: LG. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: JRP. Wrote the paper: LG JRP SH.