Lekking as collective behaviour. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Lekking is a spectacular mating system in which males maintain tightly organized clustering of territories during the mating season, and females visit these leks for mating.
Rathore A, Isvaran K, Guttal V.
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A multi-scale review of the dynamics of collective behaviour: from rapid responses to ontogeny and evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Collective behaviours, such as flocking in birds or decision making by bee colonies, are some of the most intriguing behavioural phenomena in the animal kingdom.
Ioannou CC, Laskowski KL.
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Ontogeny of collective behaviour. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 During their lifetime, superorganisms, like unitary organisms, undergo transformations that change the machinery of their collective behaviour. Here, we suggest that these transformations are largely understudied and propose that more systematic research
Muratore IB, Garnier S.
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Challenges of mismatching timescales in longitudinal studies of collective behaviour. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 How individuals’ prior experience and population evolutionary history shape emergent patterns in animal collectives remains a major gap in the study of collective behaviour.
Ogino M, Strauss ED, Farine DR.
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Towards an integrative approach to understanding collective behaviour in caterpillars. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 To evolve, and remain adaptive, collective behaviours must have a positive impact on overall individual fitness. However, these adaptive benefits may not be immediately apparent owing to an array of interactions with other ecological traits, which can ...
McLellan CF, Montgomery SH.
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Lateral line morphology, sensory perception and collective behaviour in African cichlid fish. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2023 The lateral line system of fishes provides cues for collective behaviour, such as shoaling, but it remains unclear how anatomical lateral line variation leads to behavioural differences among species.
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Dominating lengthscales of zebrafish collective behaviour. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2022 Collective behaviour in living systems is observed across many scales, from bacteria to insects, to fish shoals. Zebrafish have emerged as a model system amenable to laboratory study. Here we report a three-dimensional study of the collective dynamics of
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Marginal speed confinement resolves the conflict between correlation and control in collective behaviour. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Speed fluctuations of individual birds in natural flocks are moderate, due to the aerodynamic and biomechanical constraints of flight. Yet the spatial correlations of such fluctuations are scale-free, namely they have a range as wide as the entire group,
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Anthropogenic disturbance affects calling and collective behaviour in corvid roosts. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciAcoustic communication plays an important role in coordinating group dynamics and collective movements across a range of taxa. However, anthropogenic disturbance can inhibit the production or reception of acoustic signals.
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Information can explain the dynamics of group order in animal collective behaviour. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 Animal groups vary in their collective order (or state), forming disordered swarms to highly polarized groups. One explanation for this variation is that individuals face differential benefits or costs depending on the group’s order, but empirical ...
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