People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, ...

Thousands of starlings move together to form a cloud-like murmuration. New work from UC Davis and Hokkaido University shows how this kind of collective behavior can be understood based on interactions ...

Opening new possibilities in collective behavior and robotics By turning collective behavior into something that can be decoded, this approach offers practical engineering and scientific benefits. In ...

The targeted manipulation of individual genes in zebrafish larvae changes their behavioral responses to visual stimuli and thus affects the collective behavior of the animals. Individual zebrafish ...

Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...