When people gather in large groups, they often act in ways that are different from how they would behave individually. Crowds can be manipulated in many ways. Mob behavior, swarm behavior, and herding ...

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 ...

Over the past year, a curious idea known as the “Viral Bird Theory” has taken over social platforms, podcasts, and group chats, sparking intense debates about how humans behave when they think no one ...