When faced with potential predators, animals instinctively decide whether there is a threat
they should escape from, and also when, how, and where to take evasive action. While …

Until the advent of modern neuroscience, free will used to be a theological and a
metaphysical concept, debated with little reference to brain function. Today, with ever …

Escape behaviors deliver organisms away from imminent catastrophe. Here, we
characterize behavioral responses of freely swimming larval zebrafish to looming visual …

The fastest and most manoeuvrable terrestrial animals are found in savannah habitats,
where predators chase and capture running prey. Hunt outcome and success rate are …

Escape responses are used by many animal species as their main defence against predator
attacks. Escape success is determined by a number of variables; important are the …

Escape behaviors are, by necessity, fast and robust, making them excellent systems with
which to study the neural basis of behavior. This is especially true in insects, which have …

Escape responses are used by most fish species in order to avoid predation. Escape
responses include a number of behavioral and kinematic components, such as …

Collective animal behavior is an emergent phenomenon arising from the local interactions of
the members of animal groups. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing …

Behavioral studies performed in natural habitats provide a context for the development of
hypotheses and the design of experiments relevant both to biomechanics and to evolution …

While bio-inspired and biomimetic systems draw inspiration from living materials, biohybrid
systems incorporate them with synthetic devices, allowing the exploitation of both organic …