Understanding how animal groups achieve coordinated movement

Flyception: imaging brain activity in freely walking fruit flies

(2016) Dhruv Grover et al.   NATURE METHODS

Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms

(2016) Nigel R. Franks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bringing a Time–Depth Perspective to Collective Animal Behaviour

(2016) Dora Biro et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Lack of experience-based stratification in homing pigeon leadership hierarchies

(2016) Isobel Watts et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Potential Leaders Trade Off Goal-Oriented and Socially Oriented Behavior in Mobile Animal Groups

(2015) Christos C. Ioannou et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The role of social attraction and its link with boldness in the collective movements of three-spined sticklebacks

(2015) Jolle W. Jolles et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The influence of nutritional state on individual and group movement behaviour in shoals of crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia duboulayi)

(2015) Matthew J. Hansen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

What underlies waves of agitation in starling flocks

(2015) Charlotte K. Hemelrijk et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The effect of hunger on the exploratory behaviour of shoals of mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki

(2015) Matthew J. Hansen et al.   BEHAVIOUR

A Turing test for collective motion

(2015) J. E. Herbert-Read et al.   Biology Letters

Speed Determines Leadership and Leadership Determines Learning during Pigeon Flocking

(2015) Benjamin Pettit et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Collective Behaviour: Leadership and Learning in Flocks

(2015) James Herbert-Read   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Leadership emergence in a data-driven model of zebrafish shoals with speed modulation

(2015) A. Zienkiewicz et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion

(2015) Sara Brin Rosenthal 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

Genetic Mapping of Natural Variation in Schooling Tendency in the Threespine Stickleback

(2015) Anna K. Greenwood et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Initiation and spread of escape waves within animal groups

(2015) J. E. Herbert-Read et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Fish swimming in schools save energy regardless of their spatial position

(2014) Stefano Marras et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Isotocin and sociality in the cooperatively breeding cichlid fish, Neolamprologus pulcher

(2014) Adam R. Reddon et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Consequences of variation in predator attack for the evolution of the selfish herd

(2014) Lesley J. Morrell et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The increased efficiency of fish swimming in a school

(2014) CK Hemelrijk et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Flocking and Turning: a New Model for Self-organized Collective Motion

(2014) Andrea Cavagna et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Solving the shepherding problem: heuristics for herding autonomous, interacting agents

(2014) D. Strombom et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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

Swarming, schooling, milling: phase diagram of a data-driven fish school model

(2014) Daniel S Calovi et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

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

Collision avoidance during group evasive manoeuvres: a comparison of real versus simulated swarms with manipulated vision and surface wave detectors

(2014) W. L. Romey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior

(2014) Hans A. Hofmann et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Transient windows for connectivity in a changing world

(2014) Sara L Zeigler et al.   Movement Ecology

Genetic and Neural Modularity Underlie the Evolution of Schooling Behavior in Threespine Sticklebacks

(2013) Anna K. Greenwood et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Loss of Schooling Behavior in Cavefish through Sight-Dependent and Sight-Independent Mechanisms

(2013) Johanna E. Kowalko et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups

(2013) Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sum of heterogeneous blind zones predict movements of simulated groups

(2013) William L. Romey et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A model comparison reveals dynamic social information drives the movements of humbug damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus)

(2013) R. P. Mann et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Interaction rules underlying group decisions in homing pigeons

(2013) B. Pettit et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Context-dependent hierarchies in pigeons

(2013) M. Nagy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experience overrides personality differences in the tendency to follow but not in the tendency to lead

(2013) S. Nakayama et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Learning of Migratory Performance

(2013) T. Mueller et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive between-individual differences in social competence

(2013) Max Wolf et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Collective States, Multistability and Transitional Behavior in Schooling Fish

(2013) Kolbjørn Tunstrøm et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Multi-scale Inference of Interaction Rules in Animal Groups Using Bayesian Model Selection

(2013) Richard P. Mann et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Flock size and density influence speed of escape waves in semipalmated sandpipers

(2012) Guy Beauchamp   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader–follower relations in homing pigeons

(2012) Andrea Flack et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vortex formation and foraging in polyphenic spadefoot toad tadpoles

(2012) Sepideh Bazazi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Collective motion

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

Consistency of Leadership in Shoals of Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in Novel and in Familiar Environments

(2012) Alicia L. J. Burns et al.   PLoS One

Initiative, Personality and Leadership in Pairs of Foraging Fish

(2012) Shinnosuke Nakayama et al.   PLoS One

Temperament and Hunger Interact to Determine the Emergence of Leaders in Pairs of Foraging Fish

(2012) Shinnosuke Nakayama et al.   PLoS One

Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey

(2012) C. C. Ioannou et al.   SCIENCE

Swarming and pattern formation due to selective attraction and repulsion

(2012) P. Romanczuk et al.   Interface Focus

Using field data to test locust migratory band collective movement models

(2012) J. Buhl et al.   Interface Focus

Schools of fish and flocks of birds: their shape and internal structure by self-organization

(2012) C. K. Hemelrijk et al.   Interface Focus

Deciphering Interactions in Moving Animal Groups

(2012) Jacques Gautrais et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A cybernetic perspective on food protection in rats: simple rules can generate complex and adaptable behaviour

(2011) Heather C. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Propagating waves in starling, Sturnus vulgaris, flocks under predation

(2011) Andrea Procaccini et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Group leadership depends on energetic state in a nomadic collective foraging caterpillar

(2011) Melanie McClure et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cannibalism in the lifeboat — collective movement in Australian plague locusts

(2011) Matthew J. Hansen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Collective motion from local attraction

(2011) Daniel Strömbom   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Flying in a flock comes at a cost in pigeons

(2011) James R. Usherwood et al.   NATURE

Heritable Differences in Schooling Behavior among Threespine Stickleback Populations Revealed by a Novel Assay

(2011) Abigail R. Wark et al.   PLoS One

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

Evolution of personality differences in leadership

(2011) R. A. Johnstone 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

Aerobic capacity influences the spatial position of individuals within fish schools

(2011) S. S. Killen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups

(2011) I. D. Couzin et al.   SCIENCE

Self-organized aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model

(2010) H. Hildenbrandt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Blinkered teaching: tandem running by visually impaired ants

(2010) Elizabeth L. Franklin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A novel method for investigating the collective behaviour of fish: introducing ‘Robofish’

(2010) Jolyon J. Faria et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Follow me! I’m a leader if you do; I’m a failed initiator if you don’t?

(2010) Andrew J. King   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons (Columba livia)

(2010) R. Freeman et al.   Biology Letters

Multi-camera real-time three-dimensional tracking of multiple flying animals

(2010) A. D. Straw et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Making noise: Emergent stochasticity in collective motion

(2010) Nikolai W.F. Bode et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks

(2010) Máté Nagy et al.   NATURE

Building the bridge between animal movement and population dynamics

(2010) J. M. Morales et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social interactions, information use, and the evolution of collective migration

(2010) V. Guttal 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

Nutritional state and collective motion: from individuals to mass migration

(2010) S. Bazazi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

“Leading According to Need” in Self‐Organizing Groups

(2009) L. Conradt et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

High bee traffic disrupts transfer of directional information in flying honeybee swarms

(2009) Tanya Latty et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social Feedback and the Emergence of Leaders and Followers

(2009) Jennifer L. Harcourt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spatiotemporal Receptive Field Properties of a Looming-Sensitive Neuron in Solitarious and Gregarious Phases of the Desert Locust

(2009) Stephen M. Rogers et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

High-throughput ethomics in large groups of Drosophila

(2009) Kristin Branson et al.   NATURE METHODS

Inherent noise can facilitate coherence in collective swarm motion

(2009) C. A. Yates et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Andrea Cavagna et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The STARFLAG handbook on collective animal behaviour: 2. Three-dimensional analysis

(2008) Andrea Cavagna et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Efficiency and regulation of recruitment during colony emigration by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus

(2008) Stephen C. Pratt   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands

(2008) Sepideh Bazazi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Self-Organized Shape and Frontal Density of Fish Schools

(2008) Charlotte K. Hemelrijk et al.   ETHOLOGY

Automated tracking of fish in trawls using the DIDSON (Dual frequency IDentification SONar)

(2008) N. O. Handegard et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees?

(2008) K. M. Schultz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

TrackFly: Virtual reality for a behavioral system analysis in free-flying fruit flies

(2008) Steven N. Fry et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

New statistical tools for analyzing the structure of animal groups

(2008) Andrea Cavagna et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

Energy metabolism and animal personality

(2008) V. Careau et al.   OIKOS

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

Evolutionary emergence of responsive and unresponsive personalities

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

Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

(2008) A. J. W. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social learning strategies and predation risk: minnows copy only when using private information would be costly

(2008) M.M Webster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality

(2008) Z. R. Donaldson et al.   SCIENCE

Information transfer in moving animal groups

(2008) David Sumpter et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES