Self-organization of collective escape in pigeon flocks.

ABSTRACT: Bird flocks under predation demonstrate complex patterns of collective escape. These patterns may emerge by self-organization from local interactions among group-members. Computational models have been shown to be valuable for identifying what behavioral rules may govern such interactions among individuals during collective motion. However, our knowledge of such rules for collective escape is limited by the lack of quantitative data on bird flocks under predation in the field. In the present study, we analyze the first GPS trajectories of pigeons in airborne flocks attacked by a robotic falcon in order to build a species-specific model of collective escape. We use our model to examine a recently identified distance-dependent pattern of collective behavior: the closer the prey is to the pre

SUBMITTER: Papadopoulou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782486 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature