The dynamic patterns and coordinated motion displayed by groups of social animals are a
beautiful example of self-organization in natural far-from-equilibrium systems. Recent …

Collective behaviour is typically thought to arise from individuals following fixed interaction
rules. The possibility that interaction rules may change under different circumstances has …

Collective behaviour can be difficult to discern because it is not limited to animal
aggregations such as flocks of birds and schools of fish wherein individuals spontaneously …

Although collectively behaving animal groups often show large-scale order (such as in bird
flocks), they need not always (such as in insect swarms). It has been suggested that the …

The rapid, cohesive turns of bird flocks are one of the most vivid examples of collective
behaviour in nature, and have attracted much research. Three-dimensional imaging …

Collective behaviour in flocks, crowds, and swarms occurs throughout the biological world.
Animal groups are generally assumed to be evolutionarily adapted to robustly achieve …

In contrast with flocks of birds, schools of fish and herds of animals, swarms of the non-biting
midge Chironomus riparius do not possess global order and under quiescent conditions …

Abstract Sinhuber et al.(Sci Rep 11: 3773, 2021) formulated an equation of state for
laboratory swarms of the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius that holds true when the …

Traditionally animal groups have been characterized by the macroscopic patterns that they
form. It is now recognised that such patterns convey limited information about the nature of …

Abstract Recently Cavagna et al.(Sci Rep 13 (1): 8745, 2023) documented the swarming
behaviors of laboratory-based Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. Here key observations from …