Remember Ourselves As A Murmuration

Lovely spotlight on murmation and the impact of that small number of 7 (leaders) that influence the huge flock of birds! Wowza. A bit unrelated but I wake every morning quite early here in northern Mexico. There is a huge flock of Great-Tailed Grakles (the blackbird of Mexico), and as they begin to wake just before the sun rises, there is this lovely bird song that begins and continues throughout the day. My first thought upon reading, however, was that we do have this influence of a small number of humans on a group. There are several psychological terms for it, but we are seeing it in the US currently, and throughout European countries, against immigrants, and in several other nationalistic movements. The author noted this as our operating from a "behavioral function". I do hope that our human species comes to be linked by our Quorum sensing and that we make a turn for the better, yes, for the survival of all of us, and that this turn brings us to our human murmuration, at the soonest.

Hi Susan. The important thing with birds is there are NOT 7 Leaders. Every bird works with the 7 closest birds, it's a community.