Collective decisions play a major role in the benefits that animals gain from living in groups.
Although the mechanisms of how groups collectively make decisions have been extensively …

Movement in animal groups is highly varied and ranges from seemingly disordered motion
in swarms to coordinated aligned motion in flocks and schools. These social interactions are …

Predation is thought to shape the macroscopic properties of animal groups, making moving
groups more cohesive and coordinated. Precisely how predation has shaped individuals' …

Collective animal behavior is an emergent phenomenon arising from the local interactions of
the members of animal groups. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing …

Collective motion occurs when individuals use social interaction rules to respond to the
movements and positions of their neighbors. How readily these social decisions are shaped …

Although it has been suggested that large animal groups should make better decisions than
smaller groups, there are few empirical demonstrations of this phenomenon and still fewer …

Access to information is a key advantage of grouping. Although experienced animals can
lead others to solve problems, less is known about whether partially informed individuals …

Numerous factors affect the fine-scale social structure of animal groups, but it is unclear how
important such factors are in determining how individuals encounter resources. Familiarity …

The ubiquity of consistent inter-individual differences in behavior (" animal personalities")[1,
2] suggests that they might play a fundamental role in driving the movements and …

The structure of social animal groups can be dynamic, characterized by high rates of group
fission and fusion. Despite this, group composition is often well ordered by factors such as …