Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior

Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior

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In this episode, researchers explore advances in the modeling of collective animal behaviors.

In this episode, we cover:
•[00:00] Introduction
•[00:48] Conor Heins incorporated cognitive processes into a model of collective behavior.
•[02:13] Eva Kanso analyzed how confinement influences collective behavior.
•[03:41] Andreu Puy considered the role of speed in the leader-follower dynamics of schooling fish.
•[04:45] Daniel Kronauer explored how a colony of clonal raider ants collectively responds to rising temperatures.
•[06:02] Sonja Friman quantified the energy savings of starlings flying in complex formations.
•[07:27] Daniele Carlesso modeled how weaver ants decide to form chains to explore their environment.
•[08:43] Ashkaan Fahimipour explored how reef fish minimize the spread of misinformation.
•[10:11] Clare Doherty explored the individualism of terrestrial hermit crabs moving in groups.
•[11:44] Final thoughts and conclusion.

About Our Guests:
Conor Heins
Machine Learning Researcher
Verses AI / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Eva Kanso
Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California

Andreu Puy
PhD Student
Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Daniel Kronauer
Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Professor
Rockefeller University

Sonja Friman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lund University

Daniele Carlesso
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Konstanz

Ashkaan Fahimipour
Assistant Professor
Florida Atlantic University

Clare Doherty
Research Associate
Ulster University

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