Collective behaviours, such as flocking in birds or decision making by bee colonies, are
some of the most intriguing behavioural phenomena in the animal kingdom. The study of …

Larger groups often have a greater ability to solve cognitive tasks compared to smaller ones
or lone individuals. This is well established in social insects, navigating flocks of birds, and …

Noise produced from a variety of human activities can affect the physiology and behaviour of
individual animals, but whether noise disrupts the social behaviour of animals is largely …

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 …

Highlights•Three-spined sticklebacks slow decision making in turbid versus clear water.•A
speed-accuracy trade-off and improved accuracy were only seen in turbid water.•This …

The earliest studies of collective animal behaviour were inspired by and conducted in the
wild. Over the past decades much of the research in this field has shifted to the laboratory …

A long-standing assumption in social behavior is that leadership incurs costs as well as
benefits, and this tradeoff can result in diversified social roles in groups. The major cost of …

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 …

Although consistent behavioural differences between individuals (ie personality variation)
are now well established in animals, these differences are not always expressed when …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represents a group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes
with a strong genetic component. An excess of likely gene-disruptive (LGD) mutations in …