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A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

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A routine trip to the zoo turns into a tense and chaotic scene when animal behavior suddenly shifts in front of visitors. The video captures the fear, confusion, and split-second reactions that happen ...

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A pet dog sits on command, but nobody expects an insect to follow human instructions. So it may come as a surprise to learn that researchers recently succeeded in controlling cockroaches with tiny ...