We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and
pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a …

The behavior of individuals determines the strength and outcome of ecological interactions,
which drive population, community, and ecosystem organization. Bio-logging, such as …

It has long been proposed that flying and swimming animals could exploit neighbour-
induced flows. Despite this it is still not clear whether, and if so how, schooling fish …

Animals in groups touch each other, move in paths that cross, and interact in complex ways.
Current video tracking methods sometimes switch identities of unmarked individuals during …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

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 …

Magnetically actuated mobile microrobots can access distant, enclosed, and small spaces,
such as inside microfluidic channels and the human body, making them appealing for …

Flocking is a typical example of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between
individuals produce collective patterns on the large scale. Here we show how a quantitative …

Flocking behaviour is often presented as an example of a self-organized process, where
individuals continuously negotiate on the direction of travel and compromise by moving …

The spontaneous emergence of pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature, often arising as a
collective phenomenon from interactions among a large number of individual constituents or …