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  • Collective motion
  • Animal behavior
  • Statistical physics

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  • Bird flocks exhibit long-range velocity correlations, crucial for group coordination.
  • Understanding the underlying mutual interactions generating these correlations is a key challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To infer effective inter-individual interactions in natural bird flocks using experimental data.
  • To determine the functional form of these interactions with distance.

Main Methods:

  • Applied the maximum entropy (ME) approach to analyze experimental flocking data.
  • Retrieved the full distance-dependent functional form of inter-individual interactions.

Main Results:

  • Identified that effective interactions decay exponentially over a short range (a few individuals).
  • Demonstrated ME's ability to extract relevant information and minimal parameters from long-range correlations.
  • Showcased the method's capability to capture interaction anisotropy.

Conclusions:

  • Effective bird interactions are short-range, despite observed long-range correlations in collective motion.
  • The maximum entropy approach is a powerful tool for dissecting complex interactions in biological systems.
  • This method can reveal nuanced aspects of animal group dynamics, like interaction anisotropy.