Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Department of Collective Behavior Publications

Department of Collective Behavior Publications

Journal Article (459)

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Brandl, H. B.; Trillmich, F.: Animal ethics in behavioral studies - advocating a differentiated view. Ethology (2025)

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Chan, A. H. H.; Putra, P.; Schupp, H.; Köchling, J.; Strassheim, J.; Renner, B.; Schroeder, J.; Pearse, W. D.; Nakagawa, S.; Burke, T. et al.; Griesser, M.; Meltzer, A.; Lubrano, S.; Kano, F.: YOLO-Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16 (4), pp. 760 - 774 (2025)

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Chao, L.-M.; Li, L.: Hydrodynamic interactions in schooling fish: prioritizing real fish kinematics over travelling-wavy undulation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 16895 - 16900 (2025)

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Chimento, M.; Chan, A. H. H.; Aplin, L. M.; Kano, F.: Peering into the world of wild passerines with 3D-SOCS: Synchronized video capture and posture estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2025)

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Dehnen, T.; Nyaguthii, B.; Cherono, W.; Boogert, N. J.; Farine, D. R.: Breeding-related changes in social interactions among female vulturine guineafowl. Ecology and Evolution 15 (2), e70943 (2025)

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Gao, Z.; Couzin, I. D.: Swarming transitions of self-propelled particles with anisotropic social interactions. Physical Review Research 7 (2), 023144 (2025)

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Goldshtein, A.; Mazar, O.; Harten, L.; Amichai, E.; Assa, R.; Levi, A.; Orchan, Y.; Toledo, S.; Nathan, R.; Yovel, Y.: Onboard recordings reveal how bats maneuver under severe acoustic interference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (14), e2407810122 (2025)

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Griesser, M.; Bennett, N. C.; Burkart, J. M.; Hart, D. W.; Uomini, N.; Warrington, M. H.: The power of caring touch: from survival to prosocial cooperation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2025)

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Kaur, P.; Ciuti, S.; Salter-Townshend, M.; Farine, D. R.: Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 79 (3), 45 (2025)

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Keskin, G.; Duriez, O.; Lacerda, P.; Flack, A.; Nagy, M.: Adaptive cross-country optimization strategies in thermal soaring birds. iScience 28 (3), 112090 (2025)

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Klarevas-Irby, J. A.; Nyaguthii, B.; Farine, D. R.: Moving as a group imposes constraints on the energetic efficiency of movement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2041), 20242760 (2025)

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Lebovich, L.; Kaplan, L.; Hansel, D.; Loewenstein, Y.: Stability and robustness of idiosyncratic choice bias. Communications Psychology 3 (1), 79 (2025)

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Li, L.; Nagy, M.; Amichay, G.; Wu, R.; Wang, W.; Deussen, O.; Rus, D.; Couzin, I. D.: Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality. Science Robotics 10 (101), eadq6784 (2025)

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McGarvey, K.; Daura-Jorge, F. G.; Machado, A. M. S.; Farine, D. R.; Rogan, E.; Cantor, M.: The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans. Current Zoology (2025)

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Mentesana, L.; Hau, M.; D'Amelio, P. B.; Adreani, M. N.; Sánchez-Tójar, A.: Do egg hormones have fitness consequences in wild birds? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 28 (3), e70100 (2025)

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Nabeel, A.; Karichannavar, A.; Palathingal, S.; Jhawar, J.; Brückner, D. B.; Raj, M. D.; Guttal, V.: Discovering stochastic dynamical equations from ecological time series data. American Naturalist (2025)

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Nehrer, S. W.; Laursen, J. E.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.; Waade, P. T.: Introducing ActiveInference.jl: A Julia library for simulation and parameter estimation with active inference models. Entropy 27 (1), 62 (2025)

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Noori, M.; Azimi-Tafreshi, N.; Salahshour, M.: Coevolution of cooperation and epidemic spreading. Physical Review Research 7 (2), 023211 (2025)

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Nyaguthii, B.; Dehnen, T.; Klarevas-Irby, J. A.; Papageorgiou, D.; Kosgey, J.; Farine, D. R.: Cooperative and plural breeding by the precocial vulturine guineafowl. Ibis (2025)

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Papadopoulou, M.; Ball, M.; Bartashevich, P.; Burns, A. L. J.; Chiara, V.; Clark, M. A.; Costelloe, B. R.; Fele, M.; French, F.; Hauert, S. et al.; Heinrich, M. K.; Herbert-Read, J. E.; Hoitt, J.; Ioannou, C. C.; Landgraf, T.; Matchette, S. R.; Polverino, G.; Sankey, D. W. E.; Scott, D. M.; Sridhar, V. H.; Strömbom, D.; Trianni, V.; Vo-Doan, T. T.; King, A. J.: Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research. Animal Behaviour 224, 123160 (2025)

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Penndorf, J.; Farine, D. R.; Martin, J. M.; Aplin, L. M.: Parrot politics: social decision-making in wild parrots relies on both individual recognition and intrinsic markers. Royal Society Open Science 12 (5), 241542 (2025)

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Salahshour, M.: The interplay of trophic interactions and game dynamics gives rise to life-history trade-offs, consistent personalities, and predator-prey and aggression power laws. New Journal of Physics 27 (2), 023009 (2025)

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Sampaio, E.; Schnell, A. K.; Amodio, P.: Cognition in multi-species sociality. Current Biology 35 (4), pp. R132 - R136 (2025)

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Sayin, S.; Couzin-Fuchs, E.; Petelski, I.; Günzel, Y.; Salahshour, M.; Lee, C. Y.; Graving, J. M.; Li, L.; Deussen, O.; Sword, G. A. et al.; Couzin, I. D.: The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts. Science 387, pp. 995 - 1000 (2025)

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Shekar, E. S.; Nyaguthii, B.; Farine, D. R.: Intensity of nest defense of white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanoramphos) in urban versus natural habitats. Ecology and Evolution 15 (5), e71236 (2025)

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Waade, P. T.; Olesen, C. L.; Laursen, J. E.; Nehrer, S. W.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.: As one and many: relating individual and emergent group-level generative models in active inference. Entropy 27 (2), 143 (2025)

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Zhai, Y.; Zheng, X.; Chao, L.-M.; Li, S.; Xiong, M.; Jia, Y.; Li, L.; Xie, G.: An interpretable approach to estimate the self-motion in fish-like robots using mode decomposition analysis. Nature Communications 16 (1), 3887 (2025)

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Zou, Y.; Song, Z.; Chen, J. N.; Sun, Y. H.; Griesser, M.: Female budgerigars prefer males with foraging skills that differ from their own. Animal Cognition 28 (1), 9 (2025)

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Albery, G. F.; Webber, Q. M. R.; Farine, D. R.; Picardi, S.; Vander Wal, E.; Manlove, K. R.: Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial–social interface. Philosophical Transactions B 379 (1912), 20220534 (2024)

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Amichay, G.; Li, L.; Nagy, M.; Couzin, I. D.: Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion. Nature Communications 15 (1), 4356 (2024)

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Antonic, N.; Zakir, R.; Dorigo, M.; Reina, A.: Collective robustness of heterogeneous decision-makers against stubborn individuals. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 68 - 77 (2024)

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Bak-Coleman, J.; Devezer, B.: Claims about scientific rigour require rigour. Nature Human Behaviour (2024)

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Ben Mocha, Y.; Frisoni, F.; Keynan, O.; Griesser, M.: Proto-tool use for food processing in wild Arabian babblers: matching processing methods, substrates and prey types. Animal Cognition 27 (1), 35 (2024)

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Bliard, L.; Dufour, P.; Griesser, M.; Covas, R.: Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution 78 (7), pp. 1317 - 1324 (2024)

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Brandl, H. B.; Abdu, S.; Farine, D. R.: Experimental manipulation of food availability and macroparasite prevalence reveal differential effects on space use in wild rodents. Journal of Animal Ecology 93 (6), pp. 650 - 653 (2024)

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Brandl, H. B.; Farine, D. R.: Stress in the social environment: behavioural and social consequences of stress transmission in bird flocks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2034), 20241961 (2024)

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Camerlenghi, E.; Nolazco, S.; Farine, D. R.; Magrath, R. D.; Peters, A.: Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences (London) 291, 20232427 (2024)

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Catitti, B.; Grüebler, M. U.; Farine, D. R.; Kormann, U. G.: Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal. Ecology Letters 27 (2), e14366 (2024)

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Chakravarty, P.; Ashbury, A. M.; Strandburg-Peshkin, A.; Iffelsberger, J.; Goldshtein, A.; Schuppli, C.; Snell, K. R. S.; Charpentier, M. J.E.; Nuñez, C. L.; Gaggioni, G. et al.; Geiger, N.; Rößler, D. C.; Gall, G. E. C.; Yang, P.-P.; Fruth, B.; Harel, R.; Crofoot, M. C.: The sociality of sleep in animal groups. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2024)

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Chao, L.-M.; Couzin, I. D.; Li, L.: On turning maneuverability in self-propelled burst-and-coast swimming. Physics of Fluids 36 (11), 111918 (2024)

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Chao, L.-M.; Jia, L.; Li, L.: Tailbeat perturbations improve swimming efficiency in self-propelled flapping foils. The Journal of Fluid Mechanics 984, a46 (2024)

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Chao, L.-M.; Jia, L.; Wang, S.; Liberzon, A.; Ravi, S.; Couzin, I. D.; Li, L.: Tailbeat perturbations improve swimming efficiency by reducing the phase lag between body motion and the resulting fluid response. PNAS Nexus 3 (3), pgae073 (2024)

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Chimento, M.; Farine, D. R.: The contribution of movement to social network structure and spreading dynamics under simple and complex transmission. Philosophical Transactions B 379 (1912), 20220524 (2024)

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Choi, N.; Mathevon, N.; Hebets, E. A.; Beauchaud, M.: Influence of ambient water coloration on habitat and conspecific choice in the female Lake Malawi cichlid, Metriaclima zebra. Current Zoology 70 (2), zoad015, pp. 214 - 224 (2024)

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De Souza, D.; Urbanowicz, C.; Ng, W. H.; Baert, N.; Fersch, A. A.; Smith, M. L.; McArt, S. H.: Acute toxicity of the fungicide captan to honey bees and mixed evidence for synergism with the insecticide thiamethoxam. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 15709 (2024)

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Delacoux, M.; Kano, F.: Fine-scale tracking reveals visual field use for predator detection and escape in collective foraging of pigeon flocks. eLife 13, RP95549 (2024)

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Dufour, P.; Sayol, F.; Cooke, R.; Blackburn, T. M.; Gallien, L.; Griesser, M.; Steinbauer, M. J.; Faurby, S.: The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 291, 20232926 (2024)

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El Hady, A.; Takahashi, D.; Sun, R. L.; Akinwale, O.; Boyd-Meredith, T.; Zhang, Y. S.; Charles, A. S.; Brody, C. D.: Chronic brain functional ultrasound imaging in freely moving rodents performing cognitive tasks. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 403, 110033 (2024)

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Farine, D. R.: Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions. Journal of Animal Ecology 93 (3), pp. 250 - 253 (2024)

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Farine, D. R.: Nature's social network. Current Biology 34 (21), pp. R1061 - R1063 (2024)

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