Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprint
Rapid coordination of followership and leadership roles in homing pigeons navigating with unfamiliar partners
Joe Morford, Patrick J. Lewin, Lucy Larkman…·Dora Biro
This study examines how familiarity between homing pigeons affects leader-follower dynamics during navigation, finding that asymmetric information transfer occurs initially but stabilizes over time with little impact on navigation performance.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.06.736763