In recent decades, scientists have turned to modeling swarm behaviour to gain a deeper understanding of … See more

The earliest evidence of swarm behaviour in animals dates back about 480 million years. Fossils of the trilobite Ampyx priscus have been recently described as clustered in lines along the ocean floor. The animals were all ma… See more

A collection of people can also exhibit swarm behaviour, such as pedestrians or soldiers swarming the parapets . In Cologne, Germany, two biologists from the University of Leeds demonstrated flock like behaviour i… See more

The application of swarm principles to robots is called swarm robotics, while swarm intelligence refers to the more general set of algorithms.
Partially inspired by colonies of insects such as ants an… See more

Military swarming is a behaviour where autonomous or partially autonomous units of action attack an enemy from several different directions and then regroup. Pulsing, where the units shift the point of attack, is al… See more

• There is a popular myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by swarming off cliffs when they migrate. Driven by strong biological urges, some species of lemmings may migrate in large groups when population … See more