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 signature of collect
Social behaviour may enable organisms to occupy ecological niches that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Here we test this major evolutionary principle by demonstrating self-organizing social be
GPS and ECG data from wild vulturine guineafowl, collected around Mpala station, Kenya, and code that was used in the analyses for the manuscript "The physiological costs of...
For group-living animals, reaching consensus to stay cohesive is crucial for their fitness, particularly when collective motion starts and stops. Understanding the decision-making at individual and co
To date, the study of collective behaviour has mainly focused on intraspecific situations: the collective decision-making of mixed-species groups involving interspecific aggregation-segregation has re
