ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
A multi-scale review of the dynamics of collective behaviour: from rapid responses to ontogeny and evolution.
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- Using semi-folded arenas to observe spontaneous emergence of collective trails in whole colonies of termites.Movement ecology · 2026Article
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- A mechanistic understanding of collective escape in starling flocks.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Neural Bases of Collective Social Behavior and Group Interactions across Species.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Olfactory Disruption Restructures Collective Behavior and Increases Cohesive Group Dynamics.Biology · 2026Article
- Evidence for natural selection shaping the evolution of collective behavior among globalbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Anti-Predator Strategies in Fish with Contrasting Shoaling Preferences Across Different Contexts.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Inferring leader-follower dynamics in three shark species using acoustic telemetry data.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Visual Lateralisation in Female GuppiesEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Collective intermittent exploration in fish schools is mediated by visual cues.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Group personality, rather than acoustic noise, causes variation in group decision-making in guppy shoals.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Collective phases and long-term dynamics in a fish school model with burst-and-coast swimming.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Disruption of collective behaviour correlates with reduced interaction efficiency.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopesCurrent zoology · 2025Article
- Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Emergent collective behavior evolves more rapidly than individual behavior among acorn ant species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Social buffering of oxidative stress and cortisol in an endemic cyprinid fish.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Collective behaviours, such as flocking in birds or decision making by bee colonies, are some of the most intriguing behavioural phenomena in the animal kingdom. The study of collective behaviour focuses on the interactions between individuals within groups, which typically occur over close ranges and short timescales, and how these interactions drive larger scale properties such as group size, information transfer within groups and group-level decision making. To date, however, most studies have focused on snapshots, typically studying collective behaviour over short timescales up to minutes or hours. However, being a biological trait, much longer timescales are important in animal collective behaviour, particularly how individuals change over their lifetime (the domain of developmental biology) and how individuals change from one generation to the next (the domain of evolutionary biology). Here, we give an overview of collective behaviour across timescales from the short to the long, illustrating how a full understanding of this behaviour in animals requires much more research attention on its developmental and evolutionary biology. Our review forms the prologue of this special issue, which addresses and pushes forward understanding the development and evolution of collective behaviour, encouraging a new direction for collective behaviour research. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Collective behaviour through time'.
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