 Modelling and tracking the flight dynamics of flocking pigeons based on real GPS data (small flock)Ayham Zaitouny, Thomas Stemler and Michael Small Ecological Modelling, 2017, vol. 344, issue C, 62-72 Abstract: Improvements in our ability to collect and process real-time data from animal behaviour have lead to increasing interest in the quantitative analysis of collective motion in various species. This motion can be characterised as movement of a group of animals that interact among themselves and with the surrounding environment to preserve the cohesive form of the group. Examples of this motion include a flock of birds, a fish school and a group of deer or sheep. The problem becomes particularly challenging as the group dynamics and the individual dynamics need to be disentangled for biological analysis. Within this framework we describe a new mathematical technique that may be applied in order to understand animals group movement and behaviour. In particular, we model and track the behaviour of a small flock of pigeons and verify using real data that the dynamics of each individual are a combination of two different mechanisms (local and global). Keywords: Animal behaviour; Animal movement; Flocking; Nonlinear model; Tracking; GPS (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:344:y:2017:i:c:p:62-72 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.11.010 Access Statistics for this article Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier |
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