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Mechanical spectroscopy of insect swarms.
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- Insect visuomotor delay adjustments in group flight support swarm cohesion.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Ontogeny of collective behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Multimodal collective swimming of magnetically articulated modular nanocomposite robots.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Stochastic modelling of bird flocks: accounting for the cohesiveness of collective motion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Dominating lengthscales of zebrafish collective behaviour.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Understanding the thermodynamic properties of insect swarms.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Intrinsic stochasticity and the emergence of collective behaviours in insect swarms.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021Article
- An equation of state for insect swarms.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Insect swarms can be bound together by repulsive forces.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2020Article
- Environmental perturbations induce correlations in midge swarms.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- On the emergence of gravitational-like forces in insect swarms.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
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Abstract
Social animals routinely form groups, which are thought to display emergent, collective behavior. This hypothesis suggests that animal groups should have properties at the group scale that are not directly linked to the individuals, much as bulk materials have properties distinct from those of their constituent atoms. Materials are often probed by measuring their response to controlled perturbations, but these experiments are difficult to conduct on animal groups, particularly in the wild. Here, we show that laboratory midge swarms have emergent continuum mechanical properties, displaying a collective viscoelastic response to applied oscillatory visual stimuli that allows us to extract storage and loss moduli for the swarm. We find that the swarms strongly damp perturbations, both viscously and inertially. Thus, unlike bird flocks, which appear to use collective behavior to promote lossless information flow through the group, our results suggest that midge swarms use it to stabilize themselves against environmental perturbations.
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