Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior

<p><strong>Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior</strong></p> <p>Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.</p> <p>In this episode, researchers explore advances in the modeling of collective animal behaviors.</p> <p>In this episode, we cover:<br /> •[00:00] Introduction<br /> •[00:48] Conor Heins incorporated cognitive processes into a model of collective behavior.<br /> •[02:13] Eva Kanso analyzed how confinement influences collective behavior.<br /> •[03:41] Andreu Puy considered the role of speed in the leader-follower dynamics of schooling fish.<br /> •[04:45] Daniel Kronauer explored how a colony of clonal raider ants collecti...