Flocking and Models of Animal Swarms

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To read:
• William Bialek, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Thierry Mora, Edmondo Silvestri, Massimiliano Viale, Aleksandra M Walczak, "Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds", arxiv:1107.0604
• Raymond E. Engeszer, George Wang, Michael J. Ryan, and David M. Parich, "Sex-specific perceptual spaces for a vertebrate basal social aggregative behavior", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 105 (2008): 929--933
• Anders Eriksson, Martin Nilsson Jacobi, Johan Nystrom, Kolbjorn Tunstrom, "Determining interaction rules in animal swarms", Behavioral Ecology 21 (2010): 1106--1111, arxiv:0905.0917
• H. Hildenbrandt, C. Carere, C-K. Hemelrijk, "Self-organised complex aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model", arxiv:0908.2677
• David J. T. Sumpter, Collective Animal Behavior [Blurb]