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Proportion of times bold and shy homing pigeons were observed for each rank in the leadership hierarchy, across all flights. (a) Homing flights from a familiar site, (b) homing flights from an unfamiliar site and (c) free flights around the lofts. The group sizes were different for (a) and (b), and thus the lower ranks were not occupied in small groups (see the main text for details of group sizes).
