Thursday, September 16, 2010

Why birds move in unison; Torrie Johnson

Today I am doing my blog on "Why birds fly in unison". Now I know everyone wonders how a birds, ants, honey birds, and fish, are able to move a synchronizing way and are able to make a last minute decision and stay in sync, is still amazing to scientist all over. Thanks to new research there is a particle model that explain why why and how birds can fly and land together. It seems like all birds follow one bird, " the leader who usually makes all the decisions in the air, but when i comes time to land that decision usually relies on the birds own intentions. If that flock didn't have their leader, the flock would become completely out of wack, and each decision would remain with each individual bird. I personally think that this is really cool, to know how the natural world around us works. But it makes me think if they were to lose just a leader, then why can't the birds just pick a new or why can't a bird stand up to the plank it take over, it find it harder to believe that they would just go crazy if just on bird wasn't there. I guess that's what really separates the animals from the humans, take the United States for example if something was to happen to our president, then a the vice president would just step up and take his place. Why don't birds have a vice president it would stop a lot of confusion.

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