Department of Collective Behavior Publications

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)