Empirical investigation of starling flocks: a benchmark study in collective animal behaviour

By M. Ballerini, N. Cabibbo, Raphaël Candelier, Andrea Cavagna, E. Cisbani, Irene Giardina, A. Orlandi, Giorgio Parisi, Andrea Procaccini, Massimiliano Viale and 1 more. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change

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Where Next? Group Coordination and Collective Decision Making by Primates (2011, background): “Alternatively, rules are topological, with individuals modifying the behavior according to the behavior of n animals directly surrounding it, no matter how close or how far away they are (Ballerini et al. 2008; Heppner 1974; Fig.”
Aerial flocking patterns of wintering starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, under different predation risk (2009, unknown): “Flocks have strong spatial coherence (Ballerini et al. 2008a, b; Cavagna et al. 2008) and are capable of very fast, highly synchronized manoeuvres, either spontaneously, or as a response to predator attacks.”
Empirical study on social groups in pedestrian evacuation dynamics (2017, methodology): “It is defined as the angle between the velocity of the centre of mass and an axis of reference [30].”
Self-organised complex aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model (2009, methodology): “This is explained by suggesting that individuals cannot overlap at closer distance - a so-called ‘hard sphere’ (Ballerini et al., 2008b).”
Safety in numbers: the dilution effect and other drivers of group life in the face of danger (2016, background): “These synchronized movements are especially common within flocks of birds (e.g. Ballerini et al. 2008) and schools of fish (e.g. Nøttestad and Axelsen 1999), but can also be observed in fleeing herds of ungulates (Kruuk 1972).”
Propagating waves in starling, Sturnus vulgaris, flocks under predation (2011, background): “Despite some recent insight into interindividual interactions in bird flocks (Ballerini et al. 2008b), much remains to be understood and future research in individualbased modelling of collective animal behaviour could benefit from our empirical data (Hildenbrandt et al. 2010; Hemelrijk &…”
Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality? (2010, background): “[13] Michele Ballerini, Nicola Cabibbo, Raphael Candelier, Andrea Cavagna, Evaristo Cisbani, Irene Giardina, Alberto Orlandi, Giorgio Parisi, Andrea Procaccini, Massimiliano Viale, and Vladimir Zdravkovic, “Empirical investigation of starling flocks: a benchmark study in collective animal behaviour,”
Tuned, driven, and active soft matter (2015, background): “On average, the probability to find a nearest-neighboring bird in the direction of motion was markedly depleted compared to other directions [645, 646].”