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The concept of “leadership” is difficult to define objectively. The term has often been used loosely and is occasionally confused with dominance (e. g., Schomber, 1966). The main difficulty in defining leadership is to delimitate the circumstances under which true leadership is evident. For instance, we have seen that an individual changing from one activity phase into another may induce other group members to follow suit (social facilitation). Does the first animal thus exert leadership? Or, if one member of a group spots a predator, gives an alarm call, runs off and is followed immediately by the rest of the group, is this an instance of leadership?
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Leuthold, W. (1977). Leadership. In: African Ungulates. Zoophysiology and Ecology, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81073-2_12
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