A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Habituation plays a key role in shaping the collective behavior of moving animal groups, yet the effects of variation in habituation within groups are unknown. Here ...

Researchers questioned if coordinated group movements by animals moving through a fluid could reduce the energy cost of locomotion. By combining biomechanics and bioenergetics the researchers found ...

Across nature, animals from swarming insects to herding mammals can organize into seemingly choreographed motion. Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that these coordinated movements ...

Collective behaviour in animal systems emerges when local interactions among individuals give rise to coordinated group patterns without centralized control. Such phenomena span a wide range of taxa ...

Schools of fish are mesmerizing examples of collective animal behavior. Thousands of individuals move in near-perfect synchrony, despite each fish having only a limited view of their surroundings. How ...

The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature. Many mammals—including bats ...

Maggie Wang ’25 is a rising 3L at Yale Law School, a Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) Student Fellow, and a 2023-2024 Emerging Scholar Fellow with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & ...

These five incredible photos from the 2024 edition of The Nature Photography Contest demonstrate collective animal behavior at its finest. In a flock of sheep, survival is a collective effort. Each ...

People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

Many animals, including apex predators, move in groups. We know this collective behavior is fundamental to the animal's ability to move in complex environments, but less is known about what drives the ...