starlings
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 7:04AM
stephanie in environment

On The Code last night Marcus du Sautoy told us that each bird keeps track of the closest seven birds and they all must travel at the same speed.  There is an equation for it of course which, as usual, I couldn't understand.

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