While flocking is largely considered nontoxic to pets, animals who ingest large amounts of flocking may experience intestinal ...

Within a community, different species might share similar predation risks, and, thus, the ability of species to signal and interpret heterospecific threat information may determine species’ ...

Simple models have given us surprising insight into how animals flock, but most assume they do so through a homogeneous landscape. Colloidal experiments now suggest that a little disorder can have ...

Of the many curious holiday traditions—figgy pudding and wassailing counted among them—one of the oddest has to be spraying down small trees with a mixture of adhesive and cellulose fibers to satisfy ...

More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through the city’s French Quarter. From a certain perspective, might those Super Bowl fans ...

When algae and bacteria with different swimming gaits gather in large groups, their flocking behavior diminishes, something that may reduce the risk of falling victim to aquatic predators. When algae ...

You’ve made the time-honored trip to the local Christmas tree farm or ventured to the basement to dig up the faux evergreen, and your Tannenbaum is ready for its moment in the spotlight. While you ...

Crowd panics, market bubbles, and other unpredictable collective behaviors would not happen if people were smart about these things and just thought through their behavior before they acted. Right?