The collective behaviors of animals, from schooling fish to packing wolves and flocking
birds, display plenty of fascinating phenomena that result from simple interaction rules …

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 …

We report on the dynamics of collective alignment in groups of the cichlid fish Etroplus
suratensis. Focusing on small-to intermediate-sized groups (10≲ N≲ 100), we demonstrate …

Complex patterns of collective behaviour may emerge through self-organization, from local
interactions among individuals in a group. To understand what behavioural rules underlie …

A variety of simple models has been proposed to understand the collective motion of
animals. These models can be insightful but may lack important elements necessary to …

Global patterns of collective motion in bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds are
thought to emerge from local interactions within a neighborhood of interaction, the zone in …

Self-organized collective behavior has been analyzed in diverse types of gregarious
animals. Such collective intelligence emerges from the synergy between individuals, which …

The ability of biological and artificial collectives to outperform solitary individuals in a wide
variety of tasks depends crucially on the efficient processing of social and environmental …

Coordinated motion and collective decision-making in fish schools result from complex
interactions by which individuals integrate information about the behavior of their neighbors …

Collective behavior based on self-organization has been observed in populations of animals
from insects to vertebrates. These findings have motivated engineers to investigate …