Coordination among social animals requires rapid and efficient transfer of information
among individuals, which may depend crucially on the underlying structure of the …

The spread of behaviours through animal social networks have often been considered as
'simple contagions'. However, research across other disciplines now provides substantial …

Social transmission of information is vital for many group-living animals, allowing
coordination of motion and effective response to complex environments. Revealing the …

Over the past decade network theory has been applied successfully to the study of a variety
of complex adaptive systems. However, the application of these techniques to non-human …

Many animal groups exhibit rapid, coordinated collective motion. Yet, the evolutionary forces
that cause such collective responses to evolve are poorly understood. Here, we develop …

Collective motion phenomena in large groups of social organisms have long fascinated the
observer, especially in cases, such as bird flocks or fish schools, where large-scale highly …

Social interactions are central in the lives of many animals. Social partners can lower
individual stress levels (Rault, 2012), a process known in humans and primates as social …

The concept of contagion has steadily expanded from its original grounding in epidemic
disease to describe a vast array of processes that spread across networks, notably social …

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 …

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