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  • Animal Behavior
  • Ecology

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  • Collective animal movement is crucial for survival and foraging.
  • Understanding individual behavioral switching within groups is complex.
  • Existing models often lack continuous-time dynamics and behavioral state changes.

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  • To develop a novel continuous-time model for collective animal movement with behavioral switching.
  • To incorporate an unobserved leading point influencing individual movement.
  • To apply the model to real-world animal tracking data.

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  • Stochastic differential equations for 'following' and Brownian motion for 'independent' movement.
  • Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) or Brownian motion (BM) for leading point dynamics.
  • Inhomogeneous Kalman filter Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for parameter and state estimation.

Main Results:

  • The developed method successfully recovered true behavioral states in simulated datasets.
  • The model effectively captured the dynamics of collective movement in tracked reindeer.
  • Parameter estimation for diffusion and switching behaviors was achieved.

Conclusions:

  • The new modeling approach provides a robust framework for analyzing collective animal movement with behavioral plasticity.
  • This method enhances our ability to understand and predict animal group dynamics in ecological contexts.
  • The study demonstrates the utility of advanced statistical methods in analyzing complex biological systems.