Sentence examples for flock behaviour from inspiring English sources

Flock behaviour in sheep is generally only exhibited in groups of four or more sheep; fewer sheep may not react as expected when alone or with few other sheep.

From DNA replication to bacterial quorum sensing, through to bird flock behaviours, and even in human economical structures, biological systems organise behaviours via communication.

One way to tackle this problem is to simulate flocking behaviour on a computer, compare the simulation with the actual flocking behaviour and thereby attempt to explain it.

A potential-field model of flocking behaviour was constructed and used to investigate methods for generalised flock control.

But open-ended evolution and complex vision system of animal were not sufficient to observe flocking behaviour.

When this happens, all the small groups of neighbouring birds behave as one, which is what creates the characteristic flocking behaviour.

But like all flocking behaviour, it is simply the best way to avoid predators and to find the best place to feed.

My summer's highlight, as we sit in the garden most evenings, has been to watch the pre-migration flocking behaviour of our village swifts.

Flocking behaviour, as a type of self-organised collective behaviour, is described as the spatial formation of groups without global control and explicit inter-individual recruitment signals.

We conclude that human groups show the basic component of flocking behaviour without being explicitly instructed or rewarded to do so.

In this paper the FLOCK system is presented, which was designed to test the ability of simple genetic algorithm to evolve flocking behaviour in ecosystems consisting of plants, herbivores and predators.