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

Extreme environments are closely associated with phenotypic evolution, yet the
mechanisms behind this relationship are poorly understood. Several themes and …

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 …

We review a general class of models for self-organized dynamics based on alignment. The
dynamics of such systems is governed solely by interactions among individuals or “agents,” …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

The roots of swarm intelligence are deeply embedded in the biological study of self-
organized behaviors in social insects. From the routing of traffic in telecommunication …

The self-organized motion of vast numbers of creatures in a single direction is a spectacular
example of emergent order. Here, we recreate this phenomenon using actuated nonliving …