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

Mobile animal groups provide some of the most compelling examples of self-organization in
the natural world. While field observations of songbird flocks wheeling in the sky or anchovy …

Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group
living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with …

Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective 'wisdom'and other times maladaptive
'herding'is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by …

Studying animal behavior as collective phenomena is a powerful tool for understanding
social processes, including group coordination and decision-making. However, linking …

Hierarchical organization is widespread in the societies of humans and other animals, both
in social structure and in decision-making contexts. In the case of collective motion, the …

Collective decision-making is a daily occurrence in the lives of many group-living animals,
and can have critical consequences for the fitness of individuals. Understanding how …

For group-living animals traveling through heterogeneous landscapes, collective movement
can be influenced by both habitat structure and social interactions. Yet research in collective …

Most studies of collective animal behaviour rely on short-term observations, and
comparisons of collective behaviour across different species and contexts are rare. We …

Animals living in groups will profit most from sociality if they coordinate the timing and nature
of their activities. Self-organizing mechanisms can underlie coordination in large animal …