Swarm
Some creatures employ a super-brain survival strategy,
Weilding tremendous power to migrate successfully or avoid being prey.
Army ants, locusts, bees, mayflies and fourth generation monarchs know how.
Rarely, mammals make it work. Wildebeests and bats have this capability in common. Less surprising, somehow, is seeing some species of birds and fish flourishing this way,
deftly dodging obstacles and predators alike, turning on a dime – time after time.
Mysterious collective wisdom –
guiding a group to move as one, think as one, be as one.
Could humans ever learn such a trick? Would we? Should we?
Stella Castella
Animal behavior is very, very interesting to me. I enjoy what I can observe firsthand, but also what I can find out by watching some of the very fine documentary films that are available to us. Nature: The Gathering of Swarms is one such resource; I highly recommend it to you!