Social grouping is omnipresent in the animal kingdom. Considerable research has focused
on understanding how animal groups form and function, including how collective behaviour …

We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective
motion—being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

Highlights•Indirect connections are heritable and predictors of fitness in some
species.•Some animals recognize and may strategically manipulate third-party …

In group-living species, individuals gain significant advantages from establishing an
extensive network of social relationships. This results in complex organizations that are …

Sociality exists in an extraordinary range of ecological settings. For individuals to accrue the
benefits associated with social interactions, they are required to maintain a degree of spatial …

Besides focusing on the adaptive significance of collective movements, it is crucial to study
the mechanisms and dynamics of decision-making processes at the individual level …