it would be interesting to track the position of one bird within the flock.
harry On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > From Robin: > >> ... In either case, it's obvious that each bird takes >> it's queues from the others in one way or another, otherwise >> there would be no flock at all. > > The flock appears to be the leader. > > Here's a great You Tube flick of a small flock of starlings defending > themselves against an attack by a hawk. The behavior of the "flock" in > making in what appears from our perspective to be making singular decisions > becomes more apparent. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8eZJnbDHIg > > Of course each of the individual starling are reacting collectively by > bunching up closer together to stymie the Hawk, but that's the whole point. > Visually speaking, it appears to be the resulting collective behavior that > is most startling and apparent. The collective behavior is greater than the > sum of its parts. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
