How collective comparisons emerge without individual comparisons of the options

Speed–cohesion trade-offs in collective decision making in ants and the concept of precision in animal behaviour

(2013) N.R. Franks et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Economic investment by ant colonies in searches for better homes

(2013) C. Doran et al.   Biology Letters

Female Bechstein’s Bats Adjust Their Group Decisions about Communal Roosts to the Level of Conflict of Interests

(2013) Daniela Fleischmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Landmarks and ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs

(2013) N. Basari et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Bears ‘count’ too: quantity estimation and comparison in black bears, Ursus americanus

(2012) Jennifer Vonk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Groups have a larger cognitive capacity than individuals

(2012) Takao Sasaki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Experience, corpulence and decision making in ant foraging

(2012) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Experience-dependent flexibility in collective decision making by house-hunting ants

(2011) N. Stroeymeyt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals

(2011) T. Sasaki et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A Simple Threshold Rule Is Sufficient to Explain Sophisticated Collective Decision-Making

(2011) Elva J. H. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Sequence of quorums during collective decision making in macaques

(2010) Cédric Sueur et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Irrational decision-making in an amoeboid organism: transitivity and context-dependent preferences

(2010) T. Latty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flexible task allocation and the organization of work in ants

(2009) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rationality in collective decision-making by ant colonies

(2009) S. C. Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do ants make direct comparisons?

(2009) E. J.H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Speed–accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one?

(2008) Nigel R. Franks et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations

(2008) Elizabeth A. Langridge et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making

(2008) Elva J. H. Robinson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY