To benefit from group living, individuals need to maintain cohesion and coordinate their
activities. Effective communication thus becomes critical, facilitating rapid coordination of …

To receive the benefits of social living, individuals must make effective group decisions that
enable them to achieve behavioural coordination and maintain cohesion. However …

Many animal behaviours exhibit complex temporal dynamics, suggesting there are multiple
timescales at which they should be studied. However, researchers often focus on …

Animal vocal communication research traditionally focuses on acoustic and contextual
features of calls, yet substantial information is also contained in response selectivity and …

Group-living organisms commonly exhibit collective escape responses, yet how information
flows among group members in these events remains an open question. Here, we study the …

In this paper, we reconsider the spin model suggested recently to understand some features
of collective decision making among higher organisms (Hartnett et al 2016 Phys. Rev. Lett …

In both animal and cell populations, the presence of leaders often underlies the success of
collective migration processes, which we characterise by a group maintaining a cohesive …

Social animals often face a trade-off between the costs of foraging competition among group
members and the benefits of protection from predators offered by group living. The spatial …

All animals behave. Behaviour allows animals flexibility in dealing with heterogeneous,
dynamic environments, and a key goal of the field of animal behaviour is to understand how …

Chimpanzees have demonstrated across several experimental studies and field
observations that they can successfully work together. The cognitive mechanisms that …