Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin

TL;DR: Tracking wild baboons with a high-resolution global positioning system and analyzing their movements relative to one another reveals that a process of shared decision-making governs baboon movement, suggesting that democratic collective action emerging from simple rules is widespread, even in complex, socially stratified societies.

TL;DR: This work considers individual movement decisions to be based explicitly on the sensory information available to the organism, and finds that structural properties of visual interaction networks differ markedly from those of metric and topological counterparts, suggesting that previous assumptions may not appropriately reflect information flow in animal groups.

TL;DR: A survey of emerging technologies that are poised to revolutionize the study of collective animal behaviour by extending the spatial and temporal scales of inquiry, increasing data volume and quality, and expediting the post-processing of raw data can be found in this article.

TL;DR: Using high-speed imaging, it is shown that surface roughness and air pressure influence both mechanisms of thin-sheet formation and ejection, and that if the air pressure is lowered, droplet ejection is suppressed not only during thin- sheet formation but also for prompt splashing.

TL;DR: Scaling to the collective level reveals a clear association between habitat features and the emergent structure of the group, highlighting the importance of habitat heterogeneity in shaping group coordination.