Figure 1.

A schematic of the model. Agents (blue triangles) decide between individual exploration and using social information based on P(s) = exp (−αd) to copy a resource location (green circles) found by another agent. For α > 0, P(s) will be higher for d₂ than d₁. The level of individual exploration is dependent on μ, where μ → 1.1 results in high levels of exploration (see electronic supplementary material, figure S2 for actual trajectories and electronic supplementary material, figure S3 for the relationship between α and distance).