Collective behaviour in flocks, crowds, and swarms occurs throughout the biological world.
Animal groups are generally assumed to be evolutionarily adapted to robustly achieve …

Abstract Sinhuber et al.(Sci Rep 11: 3773, 2021) formulated an equation of state for
laboratory swarms of the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius that holds true when the …

Animals of all sizes form groups, as acting together can convey advantages over acting
alone; thus, collective animal behavior has been identified as a promising template for …

The collective behavior of swarms is extremely difficult to estimate or predict, even when the
local agent rules are known and simple. The presented work seeks to leverage the …

Collective animal groups are often described by the macroscopic patterns they form. Such
global patterns, however, convey limited information about the nature of the aggregation as …

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 is a widespread phenomenon in biology, cutting through a huge span
of scales, from cell colonies up to bird flocks and fish schools. The most prominent trait of …

Aggregations of animals display complex and dynamic behaviour, both at the individual
level and on the level of the group as a whole. Often, this behaviour is collective, so that the …

Aggregation is a common behavior by which groups of organisms arrange into cohesive
groups. Whether suspended in the air (like honey bee clusters), built on the ground (such as …