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11/15/2011

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A few months ago, I witnessed the same phenomenon among terns or other some such seabird, while salmon fishing along rocky cliffs of the BC Inward Passage. Beautiful, fascinating and impressive demonstration of the immense power of instant feedback coupled with unbelievably fast psysiological reflexes permitting what appears to be simultanteous semi-telepathic unity of movement. To the birds, our second may seem an hour of their subjective time. All is relative. With such super-fast perceptions and reaction times, cues (once noticed) result in immediate appropriate action.

I couldn't spot any leader, either. Who, I wonder, sets the path, direction and course for the flock? The answer is part of the mystery, too.

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