{
  "id": 15781975,
  "title": "Individual leadership in cattle persists when collective movement is induced by robotic herding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/individual-leadership-in-cattle-persists-when-collective-movement-is",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.14.759049v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In social species, some individuals consistently lead collective movements while others follow, but whether these roles persist when movement is externally induced remains unknown. Robotic herding offers a way to address this: animals are displaced by an approaching device, yet retain the option to stay, to move or to follow a conspecific that has moved. We recorded spontaneous group departures…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}