Many fish species gather by the thousands and swim in harmony with seemingly no effort.
Large schools display a range of impressive collective behaviors, from simple shoaling to …

Aggregation is a common behavior by which groups of organisms arrange into cohesive
groups. Whether suspended in the air (like honey bee clusters), built on the ground (such as …

Collective behaviour of animals has been a main focus of recent research, yet few empirical
studies deal with this issue in the context of predation, a major driver of social complexity in …

We study the collective dynamics of groups of whirligig beetles Dineutus discolor
(Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) swimming freely on the surface of water. We extract individual …

Social interaction increases significantly the performance of a wide range of cooperative
systems. However, evidence that natural swarms limit the number of interactions suggests …

In 1969, social psychologist Milgram and his colleagues conducted an experiment on a busy
city street where passers-by witnessed a set of actors spontaneously looking up towards a …

Fish exhibit a wide variety of behavior, including swimming and schooling. Animating a
school of fish is difficult because of the large number of fish and because a school of fish …

European starlings perform a great diversity of patterns of collective behaviour when hunted
by aerial predators; their large flocks are changing shape, size, and internal structure …

How individual differences translate into group outcomes is a timely and debated issue.
Recent studies, especially in social arthropods and fish, focus on diversity of personality …

ABSTRACT A school of fish exhibit a variety of distinctive maneuvers to escape from
predators. For example, they adopt avoid, compact, and inspection maneuvers when …