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When animals move together in flocks, herds, or schools, neural dynamics in their brain become synchronized through shared ways of representing space more

Weaver ants increase their individual strength as teams grow larger and by cracking the secret to superefficient teamwork, they offer insights that could transform robot design. more

Royal Society elects behavioural biologist Iain Couzin in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research on animal collectives more

Scientists use virtual reality for fish to teach robots how to swarm more

When emerging at night by the thousands, bats avoid colliding by changing how they move and echolocate more

Classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms more

New method tracks eye movements of free-swimming fish more

Prize recognizes contributions to the understanding of “Collective Behaviour Across Species” more

Angela Albi wins top prize in Royal Society photo competition more

For the sixth time, Konstanz pioneer in collective behaviour research honored as one of the most influential researchers of our time more

Small bats fly home using environmental features with distinctive acoustic cues as landmarks more

Study reveals how leadership and composition drives success in octopus-fish hunting groups more

Virtual Reality experiments have illuminated the rhythmic glue that could keep animals moving in synchrony more

Honey bees and social wasps developed a similar solution for nest building although evolution separated them 179 million years ago more