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From local collective behavior to global migratory patterns in white storks
Andrea Flack, Mate Nagy, Wolfgang Fiedler +2
Soaring migrants exploit columns of rising air (thermals) to cover large distances with minimal energy. Employing social information while locating thermals may be beneficial, but…
Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons
Andrea Flack, Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy +2
Collective animal movements produce spectacular natural phenomena that arise from simple local interactions among group members. Flocks of homing pigeons, Columba livia, provide a…
Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles
Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy, Severin Leven +1
Thermal soaring saves much energy, but flying large distances in this form represents a great challenge for birds, people and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The solution is to ma…
Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks
Mate Nagy, Zsuzsa Akos, Dora Biro +1
Animals that travel together in groups display a variety of fascinating motion patterns thought to be the result of delicate local interactions among group members. Although the mo…
Comparing bird and human soaring strategies
Zsuzsa Akos, Mate Nagy, Tamas Vicsek
Gliding saves much energy, and to make large distances using only this form of flight represents a great challenge for both birds and people. The solution is to make use of the so-…