The movement ecology of fishes

SJ Cooke, JN Bergman, WM Twardek… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Movement of fishes in the aquatic realm is fundamental to their ecology and survival.
Movement can be driven by a variety of biological, physiological and environmental factors …

Mechanisms of group‐hunting in vertebrates

MJ Hansen, P Domenici, P Bartashevich… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Group‐hunting is ubiquitous across animal taxa and has received considerable attention in
the context of its functions. By contrast much less is known about the mechanisms by which …

Dynamical order and many-body correlations in zebrafish show that three is a crowd

A Zampetaki, Y Yang, H Löwen, CP Royall - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Zebrafish constitute a convenient laboratory–based biological system for studying collective
behavior. It is possible to interpret a group of zebrafish as a system of interacting agents and …

Evolution of schooling drives changes in neuroanatomy and motion characteristics across predation contexts in guppies

A Corral-Lopez, A Kotrschal, A Szorkovszky… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
One of the most spectacular displays of social behavior is the synchronized movements that
many animal groups perform to travel, forage and escape from predators. However …

Animal-in-the-loop: using interactive robotic conspecifics to study social behavior in animal groups

T Landgraf, GHW Gebhardt, D Bierbach… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Biomimetic robots that replace living social interaction partners can help elucidate the
underlying interaction rules in animal groups. Our review focuses on the use of interactive …

Fish-inspired robotic algorithm: Mimicking behaviour and communication of schooling fish

J Connor, M Joordens… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This study aims to present a novel flocking algorithm for robotic fish that will aid the study of
fish in their natural environment. The algorithm, fish-inspired robotic algorithm (FIRA) …

The potential for physiological performance curves to shape environmental effects on social behavior

SS Killen, D Cortese, L Cotgrove, JW Jolles… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As individual animals are exposed to varying environmental conditions, phenotypic plasticity
will occur in a vast array of physiological traits. For example, shifts in factors such as …

How aggressive interactions with biomimetic agents optimize reproductive performances in mass-reared males of the Mediterranean fruit fly

D Romano, G Benelli, C Stefanini - Biological Cybernetics, 2023 - Springer
Mass-rearing procedures of insect species, often used in biological control and Sterile Insect
Technique, can reduce the insects competitiveness in foraging, dispersal, and mating. The …

A study of transfer of information in animal collectives using deep learning tools

F Romero-Ferrero, FJH Heras… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We studied how the interactions among animals in a collective allow for the transfer of
information. We performed laboratory experiments to study how zebrafish in a collective …

Social competence improves the performance of biomimetic robots leading live fish

M Maxeiner, M Hocke, HJ Moenck… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Collective motion is commonly modeled with static interaction rules between agents.
Substantial empirical evidence indicates, however, that animals may adapt their interaction …