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The simplest models for collective motion and active matter are those where alignment interactions are in competition with noise.In this framework, the now famous Vicsek model and its siblings offer both non-trivial phenomenology and a good test bed for continuous theories of active matter.I will first recall this in a synthetic way, and then proceed to show that Vicsek-like models, in spite of their simplicity, can offer some reasonable description of real biological systems.