Our article was recently accepted in Royal Society Open Science. Our study involved the development and testing of a model that can aid differentiation between mechanisms used to initiate animal group movement decisions. The model differentiates between the hypothesis that animals use their body orientations to “vote” for their preferred direction of group travel and the hypothesis that animals use a more self-organized “follow-the-leader” approach. The model was tested with data on a herd of free-ranging goats inhabiting Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia. The goats were equipped with wearable dataloggers consisting of GPS units and accelerometers/magnetometers. Results do not support the hypothesis that goats use their body positions to vote. Rather, they appear to follow the lead of other group members that begin to move off in a particular direction.