Tutorial 1. Suggested reading. I also suggest you dig around a lot more.

This book is excellent for this course.

Krause, J. and G. D. Ruxton (2002). Living in Groups, Oxford University

Press.
If you do decide to buy this book make sure you get the paperback as its
much cheaper. Its currently GB£31 new and you may be able to pick up
second hand copies on abebooks.com or ebay.

Bertram, B. C. R. (1980). "Vigilance and group size in ostriches." Animal

Behaviour 28: 278 - 286.

Beauchamp, G. and E. Fernández-Juricic (2005). "The group-size paradox:

effects of learning and patch departure rules." Behavioral Ecology 16(2): 352-
357.

Hoare, D. J., I. D. Couzin, et al. (2004). "Context-dependent group size choice

in fish." Animal Behaviour 67: 155-164.

Krause, J., J. G. J. Godin, et al. (1998). "Group choice as a function of group

size differences and assessment time in fish: The influence of species
vulnerability to predation." Ethology 104(1): 68-74.

Roberts, G. (1996). "Why individual vigilance declines as group size

increases." Animal Behaviour 51: 1077-1086.

Sibly, R. M. (1983). "Optimal group-size is unstable." Animal Behaviour

31(AUG): 947-948.

Walters, K. and P. G. Blackwell (2002). "Group formation games with

reappraisal." Journal of Theoretical Biology 217(2): 149-157.
The formation of a social group, such as the group of individuals
sharing a territory, depends on the interaction between choices made
by individuals to stay or disperse. The process can be modelled as a
multi-player variant of the well- known War of Attrition in evolutionary
game theory, as shown by Blackwell (1997; J. Theor. Biol. 189, 175-
181). In this paper, we extend the set of strategies defined there by
allowing reappraisal during the game. We give a formal analysis of the
evolutionarily stable strategy, where one exists, and illustrate it with an
example based on badger (Meles meles) territoriality. The results
predict that group size will be well adapted to, and very sensitive to, the
precise conditions under which the game is played, and give an
indication of the potential for parent-offspring conflict. (C) 2002 Elsevier
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