Amazing Starling Murmuration Displays the Beauty of Unity

Amazing Starling Murmuration Displays the Beauty of Unity

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Bees come in swarms and fish come in schools. Starlings, in the area around Edinburgh, in the moors of England, come in something called a murmuration, and the murmuration refers to the murmuring of the wings of the birds, and throughout the day the starlings are out over a 20-mile radius sort of doing their starling thing. And at night they come together and they create one of the most spectacular things in all of nature, and it’s called a murmuration. And scientists that have studied this have said they’ve never seen an accident. Now, this thing has a function. It protects the birds. You can see on the right here, there’s a predator being chased away by the collective power of the birds, and apparently this is a frightening thing if you’re a predator of starlings. And there’s leadership, but there’s no one leader. Now, is this some kind of fanciful analogy, or could we actually learn something from this? Well, the murmuration functions to record a number of principles, and they’re basically the principles that I have described to you today. This is a huge collaboration. It’s an openness, it’s a sharing of all kinds of information, not just about location and trajectory and danger and so on, but about food sources. And there’s a real sense of interdependence, that the individual birds somehow understand that their interests are in the interest of the collective. Perhaps like we should understand that business can’t succeed in a world that’s failing. Well, I look at this thing, and I get a lot of hope. Think about the kids today...
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