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Collective Motion

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In everyday life, we observe various kinds of collective behavior [80], for example, in flocks of birds [12, 36], schools of fish [68], herds of animals [31], colonies of insects [19], and also in crowds of humans [38] and car traffic [39].

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Kamimura, A., Ohira, T. (2019). Collective Motion. In: Group Chase and Escape. Theoretical Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1731-0_3

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