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Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish

Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish

Animals moving together in groups are believed to interact among each other with effective social forces, such as attraction, repulsion, and alignment. Such forces can be inferred using “force maps,” i.e., by analyzing the dependency of the acceleration of a focal individual on relevant variables. Here, we introduce a force …