When people observe one another, behavioural alignment can be detected at many levels,
from the physical to the mental. Likewise, when people process the same highly complex …

Animals often travel in groups, and their navigational decisions can be influenced by social
interactions. Both theory and empirical observations suggest that such collective navigation …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Successful bird migration can depend on individual learning, social learning, and innate
navigation programs. Using 8 years of data on migrating whoo** cranes, we were able to …

There is increasing interest in understanding the processes that maintain phenotypic
variation in groups, populations, or communities. Recent studies have investigated how the …

Evidence of social learning is growing across the animal kingdom. Researchers have long
hypothesized that social interactions play a key role in many animal migrations, but strong …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …

Soaring migrant birds exploit columns of rising air (thermals) to cover large distances with
minimal energy. Using social information while locating thermals may benefit such birds, but …

How animals refine migratory behavior over their lifetime (ie, the ontogeny of migration) is an
enduring question with important implications for predicting the adaptive capacity of …

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 …