Moving in groups offers animals protection against predation. When under attack, grouped
individuals often turn collectively to evade a predator, which sometimes makes them rapidly …

Fast transfer of information in groups can have survival value. An example is the so-called
wave of agitation observed in groups of animals of several taxa under attack. It has been …

Aggregations of organisms, ranging from zooplankton to whales, are an extremely common
phenomenon in the pelagic zone; perhaps the best known are fish schools. Social …

We studied how the interactions among animals in a collective allow for the transfer of
information. We performed laboratory experiments to study how zebrafish in a collective …

Moving animal groups exhibit a range of fascinating behaviors. The standard explanation for
how these groups form and function is that the individual animals interact via attraction …

Abstract Systems in nature are for the most part rich in connection, interaction, and
communication in various ways that are generally complex. Synchronization is one of the …

abstract Ant mill, caterpillar circle, bat doughnut, amphibian vortex, duck swirl, and fish torus
are different names for rotating circular animal formations, where individuals turn around a …

Despite the profound implications of self-organization in animal groups for collective
behaviors, understanding the fundamental principles and applying them to swarm robotics …

Animals are capable of enhanced decision making through cooperation, whereby accurate
decisions can occur quickly through decentralized consensus. These interactions often …

Inference of interaction rules of animals moving in groups usually relies on an analysis of
large scale system behaviour. Models are tuned through repeated simulation until they …