Scientists have responded by noting that hungry bears may be congregating around human settlements, leading to the illusion that populations are higher than they actually are.
Six in the evening, the air full of frost, and it seems as if the whole of Wien is congregating around the tall tables of the city's many gluhwein stalls.
At one of the souvenir shops that line Fifth Avenue in the mid-40's, several people were congregated around the racks of postcards, buying cards with the World Trade Center on them.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts appear to have distinct associations with one another, and in most instances appear to be congregated around the nucleus.
"They were congregating around the outfall from a fish cannery.
Distinct yet overlapping communities of research, policy and practice are congregating around a core set of questions about how to improve the provision, communication, relevance and application of evidence to policymaking.
Faith groups, environmental NGOs, youth groups and grassroots organisations from across the globe are congregating around the hashtag #fastfortheclimate to call for a collective fast at the start of every month.
On April 29 , 1992 when Liddy arrived for roll call at the Seventy-seventh Street station, in the heart of the city's South Central district, cops were congregating around a TV set watching a news report that a Simi Valley jury without any black members had just acquitted the L.A. cops accused in the Rodney King beating.
In the shade of a parked truck, next to a tent in which a woman was loudly complaining of having spilled a beer on her dog, a small throng of young people, more than a few of whom seemed to be wearing Vans, vintage Dead T-shirts, and Ray-Bans, were congregating around two men hawking their merchandise out of a large duffel bag.
The protesters also have been congregating around Victory Monument.
But a similar message came from the media regulator Ofcom last summer when it reported that families were congregating around the big TV in the living room once more.
