In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:47:21 -0600: Hi,
The point I have been trying to make, is that no telepathy is required for this, just sharp eyes and a sense of self preservation. >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 Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
