Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence

Eco-evolutionary dynamics, density-dependent dispersal and collective behaviour: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness

(2018) Justin D. Yeakel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Friendship across species borders: factors that facilitate and constrain heterospecific sociality

(2018) Hari Sridhar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling social interactions and environmental drivers in multi-individual wildlife tracking data

(2018) Justin M. Calabrese et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species

(2018) Molly Hardesty-Moore et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest

(2018) Colin J. Torney et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Challenges and solutions for studying collective animal behaviour in the wild

(2018) Lacey F. Hughey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou

(2018) Colin J. Torney et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Synchronization, coordination and collective sensing during thermalling flight of freely migrating white storks

(2018) Máté Nagy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management

(2018) Peter A. H. Westley et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferring influence and leadership in moving animal groups

(2018) Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habitat and social factors shape individual decisions and emergent group structure during baboon collective movement

(2017) Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   eLife

Fish pool their experience to solve problems collectively

(2017) Mike M. Webster et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Animal culture impacts species' capacity to realise climate-driven range shifts

(2016) Sally A. Keith et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Collective decision-making promotes fitness loss in a fusion-fission society

(2016) Marie Sigaud et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Individual variation in orientation promotes a 3000-km latitudinal change in wintering grounds in a long-distance migratory raptor

(2016) Ugo Mellone et al.   IBIS

Balancing direct and indirect sources of navigational information in a leaderless model of collective animal movement

(2016) Edward A. Codling et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Heterogeneous Preference and Local Nonlinearity in Consensus Decision Making

(2016) Andrew T. Hartnett et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Mass seasonal bioflows of high-flying insect migrants

(2016) Gao Hu et al.   SCIENCE

Bringing a Time–Depth Perspective to Collective Animal Behaviour

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

Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations

(2016) Andrew Berdahl et al.   Movement Ecology

Social networks improve leaderless group navigation by facilitating long-distance communication

(2016) Nikolai W. F. Bode et al.   Current Zoology

Ecological Knowledge, Leadership, and the Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales

(2015) Lauren J.N. Brent et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

To follow or not? How animals in fusion-fission societies handle conflicting information during group decision-making

(2015) Jerod A. Merkle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Modelling group navigation: transitive social structures improve navigational performance

(2015) A. Flack et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Timing is crucial for consequences of migratory connectivity

(2015) Silke Bauer et al.   OIKOS

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

Collective cell migration: guidance principles and hierarchies

(2015) Anna Haeger et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Detecting collective behaviour in animal relocation data, with application to migrating caribou

(2015) Benjamin D. Dalziel et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Cultural traditions across a migratory network shape the genetic structure of southern right whales around Australia and New Zealand

(2015) E. L. Carroll et al.   Scientific Reports

The evolution of distributed sensing and collective computation in animal populations

(2015) Andrew M Hein et al.   eLife

With a Little Help from My Friends: Group Orientation by Larvae of a Coral Reef Fish

(2015) Jean-Olivier Irisson et al.   PLoS One

Resolution of navigational conflict in king penguin chicks

(2014) Anna P. Nesterova et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd Status and Trend

(2014) Mathieu Dumond et al.   ARCTIC

A collective navigation hypothesis for homeward migration in anadromous salmonids

(2014) Andrew Berdahl et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Fishing out collective memory of migratory schools

(2014) G. De Luca et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Match-mismatch dynamics and the relationship between ocean-entry timing and relative ocean recoveries of Central Valley fall run Chinook salmon

(2014) WH Satterthwaite et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Schooling Increases Risk Exposure for Fish Navigating Past Artificial Barriers

(2014) Bertrand H. Lemasson et al.   PLoS One

Decision accuracy in complex environments is often maximized by small group sizes

(2014) A. B. Kao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Migratory Animals Couple Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Worldwide

(2014) S. Bauer et al.   SCIENCE

Collective Learning and Optimal Consensus Decisions in Social Animal Groups

(2014) Albert B. Kao et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Copycat dynamics in leaderless animal group navigation

(2014) Edward A Codling et al.   Movement Ecology

Social and genetic structure associated with migration in pronghorn

(2013) Kerey K. Barnowe-Meyer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

(2013) Lewis G. Dean et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups

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

Both information and social cohesion determine collective decisions in animal groups

(2013) N. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dilute Concentrations of a Psychiatric Drug Alter Behavior of Fish from Natural Populations

(2013) T. Brodin et al.   SCIENCE

Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups

(2013) A. Berdahl et al.   SCIENCE

Social Learning of Migratory Performance

(2013) T. Mueller et al.   SCIENCE

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

(2013) Manuele Brambilla et al.   Swarm Intelligence

Distinguishing Social from Nonsocial Navigation in Moving Animal Groups

(2012) Nikolai W. F. Bode et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

Context-dependent diel behavior of upstream-migrating anadromous fishes

(2012) Matthew L. Keefer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific

(2012) B. Pettit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cannibalism in the lifeboat — collective movement in Australian plague locusts

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

Spatiotemporal segregation among summer stocks of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) despite nuclear gene flow: implication for the endangered belugas in eastern Hudson Bay (Canada)

(2011) Julie Turgeon et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

The ecology and evolution of partial migration

(2011) Ben B. Chapman et al.   OIKOS

Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

(2011) A. J. W. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups

(2011) I. D. Couzin et al.   SCIENCE

Animal Migration and Infectious Disease Risk

(2011) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Leadership, social learning, and the maintenance (or collapse) of migratory populations

(2011) William F. Fagan et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

(2011) Luke Rendell et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Signalling and the Evolution of Cooperative Foraging in Dynamic Environments

(2011) Colin J. Torney et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Highly dynamic fission–fusion species can exhibit leadership when traveling

(2010) Jennifer S. Lewis et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2010) R. Freeman et al.   Biology Letters

Establishment of new wintering areas in herring co-occurs with peaks in the ‘first time/repeat spawner’ ratio

(2010) G Huse et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Cultural inheritance drives site fidelity and migratory connectivity in a long-distance migrant

(2010) XAVIER A. HARRISON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Specialization and evolutionary branching within migratory populations

(2010) C. J. Torney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects

(2010) J. W. Chapman et al.   SCIENCE

Opposing Rainfall and Plant Nutritional Gradients Best Explain the Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

“Leading According to Need” in Self‐Organizing Groups

(2009) L. Conradt et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Navigation in human crowds; testing the many-wrongs principle

(2009) Jolyon J. Faria et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Collective Motion due to Individual Escape and Pursuit Response

(2009) Pawel Romanczuk et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Context-dependent interaction leads to emergent search behavior in social aggregates

(2009) Colin Torney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global decline in aggregated migrations of large terrestrial mammals

(2009) G Harris et al.   Endangered Species Research

Flock flying improves pigeons' homing: GPS track analysis of individual flyers versus small groups

(2008) Gaia Dell'Ariccia et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands

(2008) Sepideh Bazazi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution

(2008) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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

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

Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments

(2008) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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