[HTML][HTML] Sensory collectives in natural systems

HJ Williams, VH Sridhar, E Hurme, GEC Gall… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape
fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely …

Whales and cephalopods in a deep‐sea arms race

HJT Hoving, F Visser - Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2024 - oceanrep.geomar.de
Scientific Significance Statement Millions of predator–prey interactions between deep-diving
toothed whales and cephalopods occur daily in the dark deep sea. While predatory whales …

Rapid color change in a group-hunting pelagic predator attacking schooling prey

AL Burns, M Licht, RJP Heathcote, J Krause… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
A major challenge for group-hunting predators is coordinating movement at high speed.
Billfish—large predators with an elongated rostrum (bill)—include some of the fastest …

Nonlocal cooperative behaviour, psychological effects, and collective decision-making: an exemplification with predator-prey models

S Saha, S Pal, R Melnik - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10713, 2024 - arxiv.org
In bio-social models, cooperative behaviour has evolved as an adaptive strategy, playing
multi-functional roles. One of such roles in populations is to increase the success of survival …

Social predation by a nudibranch mollusc

K Otter, S Gamidova, PS Katz - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Social predation is a common strategy used by predators to subdue and consume prey.
Animals that use this strategy have many ways of finding each other, organizing behaviors …

Flock response to sustained asynchronous predator attacks

S Mohapatra, P Sinha Mahapatra - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Collective behaviour is a ubiquitous emergent phenomenon where organisms share
information and conduct complicated manoeuvres as a group. Dilution of predation risk is …