The study of leadership emergence has increased substantially over the past few decades.
However, due to a lack of integrative theory, we believe limited advancement has been …

According to the criticality hypothesis, collective biological systems should operate in a
special parameter region, close to so-called critical points, where the collective behavior …

Even though grouping behaviour has been actively studied for over a century, the relative
importance of the numerous proposed fitness benefits of grouping remain unclear. We use a …

Markov Brains are a class of evolvable artificial neural networks (ANN). They differ from
conventional ANNs in many aspects, but the key difference is that instead of a layered …

Pre-roost murmuration displays by European starlings Sturnus vulgaris are a spectacular
example of collective animal behaviour. To date, empirical research has focussed largely on …

Following the cessation of whaling, the southwest Atlantic humpback whale (Megaptera
novaeangliae) population is thought to be close to pre-exploitation size, reversing 20th …

We used 22 years of seasonally and spatially consistent monitoring data to explore marine
predator–prey numerical response relationships. Specifically, we tested whether indices of …

One hypothesis about the origins and evolution of coordinated animal movements is that
they may serve as a defensive mechanism against predation. Earlier studies of the possible …

Group-living organisms commonly exhibit collective escape responses, yet how information
flows among group members in these events remains an open question. Here, we study the …

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a powerful set of tools for search and optimization that mimic
the process of natural selection, and have been used successfully in a wide variety of …