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LeadersAreMoreAttractive:BirdswithBiggerYellow BreastPatchesAreFollowedbyMoreGroup-Matesin ForagingGroups Zolta′nTo′th,MatteoGriggio* KonradLorenzInstituteforEthology,DepartmentofIntegrativeBiologyandEvolution,UniversityofVeterinaryMedicineofVienna,Vienna,Austria Abstract Socialnetworktheoryprovidesaperfecttooltobetterunderstandthepopulation-levelconsequencesofhowindividuals interactandmaketheirdecisions;however,thisapproachisgenerallyoverlookedamongevolutionarybiologistsinterested in social relationships. Here, we used social network analysis to examine the patterns of leader-follower inter