Animal groups on the move can take different configurations. For example, groups of fish
can either be 'shoals' or 'schools': shoals are simply aggregations of individuals; schools are …

Herding of sheep by dogs is a powerful example of one individual causing many unwilling
individuals to move in the same direction. Similar phenomena are central to crowd control …

Social behavior in mammals is often studied in pairs under artificial conditions, yet groups
may rely on more complicated social structures. Here, we use a novel system for tracking …

Inferring the laws of interaction in agent-based systems from observational data is a
fundamental challenge in a wide variety of disciplines. We propose a nonparametric …

Elongated, weakly interacting, apolar, fibroblast cells (mouse fibroblasts NIH-3T3) cultured
at confluence align together, forming large domains (correlation length∼ 500 μm) where …

Single and collective cell migration are fundamental processes critical for physiological
phenomena ranging from embryonic development and immune response to wound healing …

The balletic motion of bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds is believed to emerge
from local interactions between individuals in a process of self-organization. The key to …

Swarming behaviours in animals have been extensively studied owing to their implications
for the evolution of cooperation, social cognition and predator–prey dynamics. An important …

The striking patterns of collective animal behavior, including ant trails, bird flocks, and fish
schools, can result from local interactions among animals without centralized control …

Collective animal behaviour occurs at nearly every biological size scale, from single-celled
organisms to the largest animals on earth. It has long been known that models with simple …