Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Optimal Foraging00:48

Optimal Foraging

14.0K
How animals obtain and eat their food is called foraging behavior. Foraging can include searching for plants and hunting for prey and depends on the species and environment.
14.0K
What are Populations and Communities?00:30

What are Populations and Communities?

38.1K
Overview
38.1K
Inclusive Fitness00:57

Inclusive Fitness

42.6K
Most altruistic behavior—in which one animal helps another at a cost to themselves—occurs between relatives. Scientists think these altruistic behaviors evolved because they increase the inclusive fitness of the animal providing help.
42.6K
Migration00:53

Migration

9.0K
Migration is long-range, seasonal movement from one region or habitat to another. This common strategy, carried out by many different organisms around the world, is an adaptive response that typically corresponds to changes in an organism’s environment, like resource availability or climate. Migrations can involve huge groups of thousands of animals as well as single individuals traveling alone and can range from thousands of kilometers to just a few hundred meters.
9.0K
Outliers and Influential Points01:08

Outliers and Influential Points

6.4K
An outlier is an observation of data that does not fit the rest of the data. It is sometimes called an extreme value. When you graph an outlier, it will appear not to fit the pattern of the graph. Some outliers are due to mistakes (for example, writing down 50 instead of 500), while others may indicate that something unusual is happening. Outliers are present far from the least squares line in the vertical direction. They have large "errors," where the "error" or residual is the...
6.4K
Conservation of Small Populations02:04

Conservation of Small Populations

17.5K
Small population sizes put a species at extreme risk of extinction due to a lack of variation, and a consequent decrease in adaptability. This weakens the chances of survival under pressures such as climate change, competition from other species, or new diseases. Large populations are more likely to survive pressures such as these, as such populations are more likely to harbor individuals that have genetic variants that are adaptive under new stresses. Small populations are much less...
17.5K

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Swimming speed of schooling fish controls social interaction strength in open-loop immersive virtual reality.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same author

Stigmergic influence of simple bots on human cooperation in digital environments.

EPJ data science·2026
Same author

Correction: An open-source closed-loop Virtual Reality system to investigate social interactions and collective behavior in fish.

PloS one·2026
Same author

Future practices of interdisciplinary research in collective animal behaviour.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface·2026
Same author

An open-source closed-loop Virtual Reality system to investigate social interactions and collective behavior in fish.

PloS one·2026
Same author

Termite mound architecture and climate control: a review of X-ray tomography and flow field simulation approaches.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface·2025

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Feb 18, 2026

The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior
06:48

The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior

Published on: January 19, 2019

9.9K

Identifying influential neighbors in animal flocking.

Li Jiang1,2, Luca Giuggioli3, Andrea Perna4

  • 1School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Plos Computational Biology
|November 22, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Fish in schools pay attention to only one or two neighbors at a time when coordinating movement. Their attention is selective, not based on neighbor proximity, aiding collective decision-making in schooling fish.

More Related Videos

Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions
07:09

Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions

Published on: May 2, 2019

6.5K
Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communication
07:21

Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communication

Published on: February 9, 2011

14.1K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Feb 18, 2026

The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior
06:48

The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior

Published on: January 19, 2019

9.9K
Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions
07:09

Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions

Published on: May 2, 2019

6.5K
Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communication
07:21

Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communication

Published on: February 9, 2011

14.1K

Area of Science:

  • Collective behavior
  • Animal social dynamics
  • Fish schooling

Background:

  • Coordinated movement in schools of fish and flocks of birds relies on information sharing among individuals.
  • While neighbor directionality is crucial for group cohesion, the number of neighbors an individual can track and their spatial distribution remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how many neighbors individual fish simultaneously track and attend to.
  • To determine the spatial distribution of influential neighbors in fish schools.
  • To understand the mechanisms of information processing in collective animal behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a data-driven analysis of short-term directional correlations in schooling fish (Hemigrammus rhodostomus).
  • Identified influential neighbors by analyzing their impact on individual participation in collective U-turn events.

Main Results:

  • Fish primarily react to one or two neighbors at any given time.
  • No correlation was found between a neighbor's distance rank and its influence on the focal fish.
  • Individual fish exhibit sequential and selective attention towards their neighbors.

Conclusions:

  • Fish schooling involves selective attention, with individuals focusing on a limited number of neighbors.
  • The spatial arrangement of neighbors does not dictate their influence; attention is key.
  • Findings provide insights into the cognitive mechanisms underlying coordinated group movement.