Predation is thought to shape the macroscopic properties of animal groups, making moving
groups more cohesive and coordinated. Precisely how predation has shaped individuals' …

Collective decisions play a major role in the benefits that animals gain from living in groups.
Although the mechanisms of how groups collectively make decisions have been extensively …

Animal groups vary in their collective order (or state), forming disordered swarms to highly
polarized groups. One explanation for this variation is that individuals face differential …

Collective motion, where large numbers of individuals move synchronously together, is
achieved when individuals adopt interaction rules that determine how they respond to their …

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 …

Determining individual-level interactions that govern highly coordinated motion in animal
groups or cellular aggregates has been a long-standing challenge, central to understanding …

Collective animal behavior is an emergent phenomenon arising from the local interactions of
the members of animal groups. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing …

Social aggregations of fish are extremely common in nature. Pitcher (1983) defines a social
aggregation of fish as a shoal, with a highly polarized shoal constituting a school. The …

Establishing how collective behaviour emerges is central to our understanding of animal
societies. Previous research has highlighted how universal interaction rules shape collective …

Collective motion occurs when individuals use social interaction rules to respond to the
movements and positions of their neighbors. How readily these social decisions are shaped …