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  • 8 - Animal Migration

  • Edited by Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London, James Poskett, University of Warwick
  • With contributions by David Olusoga , Chandran Kukathas , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll , Filippo Grandi , Eva Harris , Kavita Puri , Venki Ramakrishnan and Iain Couzin
  • Book:
    Migration
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    04 June 2020, pp 166-180

  • Summary

    Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by the type of footage you see of silverside fish schooling near a coral reef and starlings forming these large murmurations in the sky. And what’s really remarkable, to me as a biologist, is how little we know about both how and why unrelated organisms like this coordinate these remarkable collective patterns. And yet collective behaviour is not only all around us – it’s within us. Our bodies, of course, are a collective of cells. At the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, we really try to understand the principles of collective behaviour across scales of organisation in biological systems. In this chapter, I’m going to set out some of the latest research on collective animal migration: how organisms come together and integrate their minds to solve very complex problems during migration across the globe.

Migration
  • Edited by Johannes Knolle, James Poskett
  • With contributions by David Olusoga , Chandran Kukathas , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll , Filippo Grandi , Eva Harris , Kavita Puri , Venki Ramakrishnan and Iain Couzin
  • Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    04 June 2020
  • Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the modern world is fundamentally shaped by movement across borders. Migration, arising from the 2018 Darwin College Lectures, brings together eight leading scholars across the arts, humanities, and sciences to help tackle one of the most important topics of our time. What is migration? How has it changed the world? And how will it shape the future? The authors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives, including history, politics, epidemiology, and art. Chapters related to policy, as well as those written by leading journalists and broadcasters, give perspective on how migration is understood in the media, and engage the public more widely. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original take on migration, providing new insights into the making of the modern world.