The phrase "herding behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phenomenon where individuals in a group act collectively, often mimicking the actions of others.
Example: "The stock market often exhibits herding behavior, where investors follow the trends set by others rather than making independent decisions."
Alternatives: "group behavior" or "collective behavior."
This "herding behavior" makes the stock market so chaotic that the pattern of trading in one week is nearly useless for predicting what will happen the following week.
Instead, her actions were part of a cycle of "herding behavior" he's found in online political communities.
The mother then remained close to other OMU members, and the invading male no longer displayed aggressive herding behavior towards her.
From 1989 until 2003, the Swedish Sheepdog Society used a standardized method, Herding Trait Characterization (HTC), to describe herding behavior of individual Border collies for breeding purposes.
Dynamic interactions exist between this effect in the stock market and online communication; the latter can weaken the herding effect, suppress the continued spread of herding behavior, and improve market efficiency (Zheng et al. 2015).
Markets of any kind are potentially subject to herding behavior.
In addition, further work could reveal how herding behaviors change when sheep are infected with neurodegenerative diseases such as scrapie, which kills sheep and can quickly spread throughout a flock if infected animals aren't quarantined.
In fact, this type of behavior is found throughout nature, sometimes using different terms and referencing different organisms, such as flocking (birds), herding (quadrupeds), schooling (fish), blooms (phytoplankton) and even cancer cells (Deisboeck and Couzin 2009).
Major traits include, flocking/herding behavior, and territoriality regulated by brain peptides and reproductive steroids produced in discrete nuclei of neurons in the brain (i.e., not dependent upon circulating sex steroids of gonadal origin that would also trigger reproductive traits that in most species would be inappropriate in the nonbreeding season).
Still, "herding cats" is not a term that seems to apply to the Popovich family.
The hounds received some of the loudest cheers from the crowd, which also watched toy, nonsporting and herding dogs Monday.
