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 …

Social animals commonly form aggregates that exhibit emergent collective behaviour, with
group dynamics that are distinct from the behaviour of individuals. Simple models can …

Collective animal behaviour is often modeled by systems of agents that interact via effective
social forces, including short-range repulsion and long-range attraction. We search for …

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 emergence of similar collective patterns from different self-propelled particle models of
animal groups points to a restricted set of “universal” classes for these patterns. While …

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 …

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 …

The macroscopic emergent behavior of social animal groups is a classic example of
dynamical self-organization, and is thought to arise from the local interactions between …

Animal collective motion arises from the intricate interactions between the natural variability
among individuals, and the homogenizing effect of the group, working to generate …

Although collectively behaving animal groups often show large-scale order (such as in bird
flocks), they need not always (such as in insect swarms). It has been suggested that the …