Within-group cooperation (i.e., among closely related individuals), is to varying degrees observed among a significant number of animal species. However, peaceful encounters and cooperation between ...

Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species -- known as the fire ant -- is no exception. The social interactions of this invasive insect, which comes from South America, are framed ...

Andreagiovanni Reina receives funding from the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS, of which he is a Chargé de Recherches. He is affiliated with IRIDIA, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on Artificial ...

A drone is flying over a herd of plains zebras in central Kenya. It is flying quite high so that the animals are not bothered by it. These zebras are really interesting for collective and spatial ...

Since the publication of Lionel Penrose's On the Objective Study of Crowd Behaviour, significant advances have been made in the understanding of intragroup and intergroup behaviour relevant to world ...