Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulation for modelling animal territorial behaviour.

ABSTRACT: We explore the use of movable automata in numerical modelling of male competition for territory. We used territorial dragonflies as our biological inspiration for the model, assuming two types of competing males: (a) faster and larger males that adopt a face-off strategy and repulse other males; (b) slower and smaller males that adopt a non-aggressive strategy. The faster and larger males have higher noise intensity, leading to faster motion and longer conservation of motion direction. The velocity distributions resemble the Maxwell distributions of velocity, expected in Brownian dynamics, with two probable velocities and distribution widths for the two animal subpopulations. The fast animals' trajectories move between visually fixed density folds of the slower animal subpopulation. A corr

SUBMITTER: Guillermo-Ferreira R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11263813 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature