ReviewThe Journal of experimental biology2016
Understanding how animal groups achieve coordinated movement.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Air-breathing synchrony in juvenile Arapaima gigas reveals collective coordination under individual physiological constraints.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Duration-dependent effects of social isolation on reintegration behavior in the swarming soldier crab, Mictyris guinotae.PloS one · 2026Article
- Collective phases and long-term dynamics in a fish school model with burst-and-coast swimming.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Collective properties of Petitella georgiae in tube environments.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Collective responses of flocking sheep (Ovis aries) to a herding dog (border collie).Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Predicting the long-term collective behaviour of fish pairs with deep learning.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Pausing to swarm: locust intermittent motion is instrumental for swarming-related visual processing.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Shoaling behaviour in response to turbidity in three-spined sticklebacks.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Tuning social interactions' strength drives collective response to light intensity in schooling fish.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Nearest Neighbour Node Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Simulating individual movement in fish.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' movements and positions. Recent advancements in automated tracking technologies, including computer vision and GPS, now allow researchers to gather large amounts of data on the movements and positions of individuals in groups. Furthermore, analytical techniques from fields such as statistical physics now allow us to identify the precise interaction rules used by animals on the move. These interaction rules differ not only between species, but also between individuals in the same group. These differences have wide-ranging implications, affecting how groups make collective decisions and driving the evolution of collective motion. Here, I describe how trajectory data can be used to infer how animals interact in moving groups. I give examples of the similarities and differences in the spatial and directional organisations of animal groups between species, and discuss the rules that animals use to achieve this organisation. I then explore how groups of the same species can exhibit different structures, and ask whether this results from individuals adapting their interaction rules. I then examine how the interaction rules between individuals in the same groups can also differ, and discuss how this can affect ecological and evolutionary processes. Finally, I suggest areas of future research.
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