The same rules explain the remarkable synchrony of flocks of birds, swarms of army ants and even mass migrations of wildebeests and whales.
If we keep this up, soon we will hear that in Africa, migrating herds of wildebeests stopped moving and began settling into trailer parks.
This is peak season for the tourism industry, as throngs of Westerners (and, increasingly, Asians) gather to witness the annual migration of some two million wildebeests as they make the perilous crossing from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
For seven hours every Sunday, the city closes more than 100km of roads to motor vehicles, and a wildebeest-worthy migration of bikes and pedestrians takes over the city.
Amboseli National Park was set up as an open wildlife preserve integrally related to a much larger, 5000 square kilometer ecosystem where migrations of zebras, elephants, wildebeests, and other animals would be safeguarded.
Nor has he traipsed the African bush charting the sex life of wildebeests.
Still, watching a flock of birds or a herd of wildebeests move is dazzling to the human eye.
At one camp we got to play soccer with the staff on a vast field in the Serengeti before an audience of wildebeests.
Now we were speeding along game trails, with a herd of wildebeests and elands, antelope the color of light coffee, fleeing at the sight of us.
