title: Collective motion due to individual escape and pursuit response.
abstract: Recent studies suggest that noncooperative behavior such as cannibalism may be a driving mechanism of collective motion. Motivated by these novel results we introduce a simple model of Brownian particles interacting by biologically motivated pursuit and escape interactions. We show the onset of collective motion for both interaction types and analyze their impact on the global dynamics. We demonstrate a strong dependence of experimentally accessible macroscopic observables on the relative strength of escape and pursuit and determine the scaling of the migration speed with model parameters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Humboldt University Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Romanczuk
authors.forename: Iain D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Couzin
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schimansky-Geier
mesh_terms: D025041:Animal Migration; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria; D001717:Birds; D007313:Insecta; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement