About the Authors

Cédric Sueur

cedric.sueur@c-strasbourg.fr

Affiliations Unit of Social Ecology, The Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, Ethologie des Primates, Department of Ecology, Physiology, and Ethology, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Strasbourg, France, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Affiliation Unit of Social Ecology, The Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Odile Petit

Affiliation Unit of Social Ecology, The Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Iain D. Couzin

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS JLD IDC. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: CS IDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS JLD OP IDC. Wrote the paper: CS JLD OP IDC.