Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

The dynamic patterns and coordinated motion displayed by groups of social animals are a
beautiful example of self-organization in natural far-from-equilibrium systems. Recent …

Modeling crowd motion is central to situations as diverse as risk prevention in mass events
and visual effects rendering in the motion picture industry. The difficulty of performing …

Animal aggregations are visually striking, and as such are popular examples of collective
behavior in the natural world. Quantitatively demonstrating the collective nature of such …

Social animals routinely form groups, which are thought to display emergent, collective
behavior. This hypothesis suggests that animal groups should have properties at the group …

Collective behaviour can be difficult to discern because it is not limited to animal
aggregations such as flocks of birds and schools of fish wherein individuals spontaneously …

Understanding and even defining what constitutes animal interactions remains a
challenging problem. Correlational tools may be inappropriate for detecting communication …

Living organisms and, in general, bio-materials respond to external stimuli exhibiting
specific functionalities (such as shape-morphing, color change, tissue growth and …

Although collectively behaving animal groups often show large-scale order (such as in bird
flocks), they need not always (such as in insect swarms). It has been suggested that the …

Male honeybees (drones) are thought to congregate in large numbers in particular" drone
congregation areas" to mate. We used harmonic radar to record the flight paths of individual …