Claudio Carere

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Claudio Carere is a leading behavioral biologist whose research bridges animal personality, collective behavior, and predator-prey dynamics. His work explores how individual differences—or "personalities"—within groups shape collective responses to threats and novelty. Carere’s innovative use of a robotic peregrine falcon (RobotFalcon) to study natural escape behaviors in bird flocks has been a standout contribution, enabling controlled experiments on collective evasion that were previously impossible. His 2024 paper on this method, which demonstrated similar escape patterns across species, has already garnered 13 citations. In a 2025 study on homing pigeons, he showed that group personality composition directly influences cohesion under predation risk, advancing our mechanistic understanding of collective behavior. Carere’s research on starling murmurations further disentangles how large flocks rapidly change shape and structure during aerial hunts. With a career focused on integrating field observations, robotics, and experimental psychology, Carere has become a key figure in unraveling the complex interplay between individual traits and group-level phenomena, offering profound insights into the evolution of sociality and antipredator strategies.