A physics perspective on collective animal behavior

An equation of state for insect swarms

(2021) Michael Sinhuber et al.   Scientific Reports

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of insect swarms

(2021) Andy M. Reynolds   Scientific Reports

Goals and Limitations of Modeling Collective Behavior in Biological Systems

(2021) Nicholas T. Ouellette et al.   Frontiers in Physics

A model of collective behavior based purely on vision

(2020) Renaud Bastien et al.   Science Advances

Environmental perturbations induce correlations in midge swarms

(2020) Kasper van der Vaart et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Decoding collective communications using information theory tools

(2020) K. R. Pilkiewicz et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Transfer Entropy Analysis of Interactions between Bats Using Position and Echolocation Data

(2020) Irena Shaffer et al.   Entropy

Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras

(2020) Raphaël Sarfati et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Pair formation in insect swarms driven by adaptive long-range interactions

(2020) Dan Gorbonos et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Response of insect swarms to dynamic illumination perturbations

(2019) Michael Sinhuber et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

idtracker.ai: tracking all individuals in small or large collectives of unmarked animals

(2019) Francisco Romero-Ferrero et al.   NATURE METHODS

Flowing crowds

(2019) Nicholas T. Ouellette   SCIENCE

Dynamic response and hydrodynamics of polarized crowds

(2019) Nicolas Bain et al.   SCIENCE

Three-dimensional time-resolved trajectories from laboratory insect swarms

(2019) Michael Sinhuber et al.   Scientific Data

Costs and benefits of social relationships in the collective motion of bird flocks

(2019) Hangjian Ling et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Black soldier fly larvae rearrange under compression

(2019) Olga Shishkov et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Local interactions and their group-level consequences in flocking jackdaws

(2019) Hangjian Ling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Compound-V formations in shorebird flocks

(2019) Aaron J Corcoran et al.   eLife

Mechanical spectroscopy of insect swarms

(2019) Kasper van der Vaart et al.   Science Advances

Collective turns in jackdaw flocks: kinematics and information transfer

(2019) Hangjian Ling et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

On the emergence of gravitational-like forces in insect swarms

(2019) Andy M. Reynolds   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Dry Aligning Dilute Active Matter

(2019) Hugues Chaté   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks

(2019) Hangjian Ling et al.   Nature Communications

The Role of Individual Heterogeneity in Collective Animal Behaviour

(2019) Jolle W. Jolles et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ethology as a physical science

(2018) André E. X. Brown et al.   Nature Physics

The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants

(2018) Ofer Feinerman et al.   Nature Physics

The physics of flocking: Correlation as a compass from experiments to theory

(2018) Andrea Cavagna et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Colloquium : Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

(2018) Miguel A. Muñoz   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

From local collective behavior to global migratory patterns in white storks

(2018) Andrea Flack et al.   SCIENCE

Collective mechanical adaptation of honeybee swarms

(2018) O. Peleg et al.   Nature Physics

Simultaneous measurements of three-dimensional trajectories and wingbeat frequencies of birds in the field

(2018) Hangjian Ling et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Are midge swarms bound together by an effective velocity-dependent gravity?

(2017) Andrew M. Reynolds et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

On the relevance of the maximum entropy principle in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

(2017) Gennaro Auletta et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Dynamic scaling in natural swarms

(2017) Andrea Cavagna et al.   Nature Physics

Phase Coexistence in Insect Swarms

(2017) Michael Sinhuber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Signatures of optimal control in pairs of schooling zebrafish

(2017) Andress Laan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Entangled active matter: From cells to ants

(2016) D.L. Hu et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Local equilibrium in bird flocks

(2016) Thierry Mora et al.   Nature Physics

Long-range acoustic interactions in insect swarms: an adaptive gravity model

(2016) Dan Gorbonos et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

(2016) Jeffrey Aguilar et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Swarm dynamics may give rise to Lévy flights

(2016) Andrew M. Reynolds et al.   Scientific Reports

Self-organized sorting limits behavioral variability in swarms

(2016) Katherine Copenhagen et al.   Scientific Reports

Velocity correlations in laboratory insect swarms

(2015) R. Ni et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

A transfer entropy analysis of leader-follower interactions in flying bats

(2015) N. Orange et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

GReTA-A Novel Global and Recursive Tracking Algorithm in Three Dimensions

(2015) Alessandro Attanasi et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

Mechanics of fire ant aggregations

(2015) Michael Tennenbaum et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids

(2015) A. P. Solon et al.   Nature Physics

Flow and clogging of a sheep herd passing through a bottleneck

(2015) A. Garcimartín et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Towards a thermodynamics of active matter

(2015) S. C. Takatori et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Intrinsic Fluctuations and Driven Response of Insect Swarms

(2015) Rui Ni et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Time-Frequency Analysis Reveals Pairwise Interactions in Insect Swarms

(2015) James G. Puckett et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Empirical questions for collective-behaviour modelling

(2015) NICHOLAS T OUELLETTE   PRAMANA-JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Intermittent collective dynamics emerge from conflicting imperatives in sheep herds

(2015) Francesco Ginelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons

(2015) A. Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   SCIENCE

The Statistical Physics of Athermal Materials

(2015) Dapeng Bi et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Topological Data Analysis of Biological Aggregation Models

(2015) Chad M. Topaz et al.   PLoS One

Extensional rheology of entangled granular materials

(2014) Scott V. Franklin   EPL

A protocol and calibration method for accurate multi-camera field videography

(2014) D. H. Theriault et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fire ants actively control spacing and orientation within self-assemblages

(2014) P. C. Foster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The effects of flow on schoolingDevario aequipinnatus: school structure, startle response and information transmission

(2014) A. Chicoli et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Determining asymptotically large population sizes in insect swarms

(2014) J. G. Puckett et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies

(2014) G. J. Berman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Ordering dynamics in collectively swimming Surf Scoters

(2014) Ryan Lukeman   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight

(2014) Steven J. Portugal et al.   NATURE

idTracker: tracking individuals in a group by automatic identification of unmarked animals

(2014) Alfonso Pérez-Escudero et al.   NATURE METHODS

Information transfer and behavioural inertia in starling flocks

(2014) Alessandro Attanasi et al.   Nature Physics

Finite-Size Scaling as a Way to Probe Near-Criticality in Natural Swarms

(2014) Alessandro Attanasi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Role of projection in the control of bird flocks

(2014) D. J. G. Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social interactions dominate speed control in poising natural flocks near criticality

(2014) W. Bialek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bird Flocks as Condensed Matter

(2014) Andrea Cavagna et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Searching for effective forces in laboratory insect swarms

(2014) James G. Puckett et al.   Scientific Reports

Male motion coordination in anopheline mating swarms

(2014) Daigo Shishika et al.   Scientific Reports

Collective Behaviour without Collective Order in Wild Swarms of Midges

(2014) Alessandro Attanasi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Heterogeneous structure in mixed-species corvid flocks in flight

(2013) Jolle W. Jolles et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Stability of model flocks in turbulent-like flow

(2013) Nidhi Khurana et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Diffusion of individual birds in starling flocks

(2013) A. Cavagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups

(2013) A. Berdahl et al.   SCIENCE

Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms

(2013) Douglas H. Kelley et al.   Scientific Reports

The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey

(2012) Nils Olav Handegard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reconstructing the flight kinematics of swarming and mating in wild mosquitoes

(2012) S. Butail et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Entangled Granular Media

(2012) Nick Gravish et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective motion

(2012) Tamás Vicsek et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds

(2012) W. Bialek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Criticality and the onset of ordering in the standard Vicsek model

(2012) G. Baglietto et al.   Interface Focus

Deciphering Interactions in Moving Animal Groups

(2012) Jacques Gautrais et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?

(2011) Thierry Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Flying in a flock comes at a cost in pigeons

(2011) James R. Usherwood et al.   NATURE

Inferring the rules of interaction of shoaling fish

(2011) J. E. Herbert-Read et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods

(2011) N. J. Mlot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring the structure and dynamics of interactions in schooling fish

(2011) Y. Katz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks

(2010) Máté Nagy et al.   NATURE

Relevance of Metric-Free Interactions in Flocking Phenomena

(2010) Francesco Ginelli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

(2010) A. Cavagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fold-change detection and scalar symmetry of sensory input fields

(2010) O. Shoval et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring individual rules from collective behavior

(2010) Ryan Lukeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

(2010) Sriram Ramaswamy   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Organized flight in birds

(2009) Iztok Lebar Bajec et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Critical Population Density Triggers Rapid Formation of Vast Oceanic Fish Shoals

(2009) N. C. Makris et al.   SCIENCE

The STARFLAG handbook on collective animal behaviour: 1. Empirical methods

(2008) Andrea Cavagna et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Lagrangian Properties of Particles in Turbulence

(2008) Federico Toschi et al.   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Lagrangian particle tracking in three dimensions via single-camera in-line digital holography

(2008) Jiang Lu et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: Evidence from a field study

(2008) M. Ballerini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans

(2008) Greg J. Stephens et al.   PLoS Computational Biology