Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups [Ecology]

The need to make fast decisions under risky and uncertain conditions is a widespread problem in the natural world. While there has been extensive work on how individual organisms dynamically modify their behavior to respond appropriately to changing environmental conditions (and how this is encoded in the brain), we know...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 7, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Matthew M. G. Sosna, Colin R. Twomey, Joseph Bak-Coleman, Winnie Poel, Bryan C. Daniels, Pawel Romanczuk, Iain D. Couzin Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research