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8 - Animal Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Johannes Knolle
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
James Poskett
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Chandran Kukathas
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Filippo Grandi
Affiliation:
United Nations Refugee Agency
Eva Harris
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Kavita Puri
Affiliation:
BBC
Venki Ramakrishnan
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Couzin
Affiliation:
Universität Konstanz, Germany
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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by the type of footage you see of silverside fish schooling near a coral reef and starlings forming these large murmurations in the sky. And what’s really remarkable, to me as a biologist, is how little we know about both how and why unrelated organisms like this coordinate these remarkable collective patterns. And yet collective behaviour is not only all around us – it’s within us. Our bodies, of course, are a collective of cells. At the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, we really try to understand the principles of collective behaviour across scales of organisation in biological systems. In this chapter, I’m going to set out some of the latest research on collective animal migration: how organisms come together and integrate their minds to solve very complex problems during migration across the globe.

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Migration , pp. 166 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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