Anyone who has seen the beautiful evolutions of a large flock of starlings swirling and dancing in the sky at dusk can hardly forget the visual impact of such a paradigm of collective animal behaviour. The strongest impression is of the flock as an entity on its own, something more than the mere sum of its individual constituents, the birds. The same impression is prompted by the remarkable coordination of a school of sardines1. Yet this collective behaviour stems from some simple rules of interaction between the individuals.
The Seventh Starling / Giardina, irene rosana; Cavagna, Andrea. - In: SIGNIFICANCE. - ISSN 1740-9713. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:2(2008), pp. 62-66. [10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00288.x]
The Seventh Starling
GIARDINA, irene rosana;
2008
Abstract
Anyone who has seen the beautiful evolutions of a large flock of starlings swirling and dancing in the sky at dusk can hardly forget the visual impact of such a paradigm of collective animal behaviour. The strongest impression is of the flock as an entity on its own, something more than the mere sum of its individual constituents, the birds. The same impression is prompted by the remarkable coordination of a school of sardines1. Yet this collective behaviour stems from some simple rules of interaction between the individuals.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
