Thursday 25 May 2023

Power Law Distribution in Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) Herds in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania | Chapter 7 | Research Highlights in Science and Technology Vol. 2

 The aim of our study search out investigate whether public interactions betwixt individual wildebeest can generate the empirical capacity law distributions of wildebeest aggregations. Animals are often about groups such as fish schools, fowl flocks, insect swarms, and hog herds. Being in a group helps members to undertake different behavioral projects such as in foraging, hunter avoidance, and opposition to toxic environmental environments, reproduction or socialization. In this study, we present the power society, truncated capacity law and the exponential classification. We also quantified the disposal of real herds by analyzing the commonness distribution of wildebeest counts in flying survey images collected in 2015. We before used a Lagrangian model of animal interactions to pretend individual movement and herd aggregation patterns. The simulations of our power-based model shown characteristic aggregation patterns that were most similar to the practical data. We observed a close couple between parameters from the practical data and power based model. These parameters contain the scaling parameter from the capacity law (α) and the predictable difference σ. With parameter values that doubled empirical distributions, we fitted the model. Our reasoning of the empirical data shows that the collection patterns of wildebeest herds are governed by a shortened power law. We argue that social interactions betwixt individual wildebeest can explain this behaviour.

Author(s) Details:

N. Kisoma Linus,
Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box-3038, Morogoro, Tanzania.

Torney Colin,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK.

C. Treydte Anna,
Department of Physical Geography, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RHST-V2/article/view/10612

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