JONATHAN TURLEY

7 Responses to “Bird Zen”

1. 1 Anonymously Yours 1, November 10, 2009 at 8:24 am

   And a Nasty Man to Boot. I hear he wanted in Marilyn’s Boot too.
2. 2 Byron 1, November 10, 2009 at 9:09 am

   if you can write an alogrithm for flocking you can make millions in the stock market.
3. 3 Former Federal LEO 1, November 10, 2009 at 11:32 am

   Starlings are an exotic/introduced, devastating ornithological pest in the USA; however, those flights are exceptional examples of natural aerobatics that anthropogenic constructs could never equal.
4. 4 Gyges 1, November 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm

   FFLEO,

   And all descended from a mating pair introduced to New York so that all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare would live in Central Park.
5. 5 puzzling 1, November 10, 2009 at 11:31 pm

   How do starling flocks stay so beautifully organized without a government to tell them what to do?
6. 6 Mike 1, November 11, 2009 at 2:19 am

   For those interested in how this happens or in watching a simulator of it, check out:

   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~paul/publications/boids/index.html or
   http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

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