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laodan discovered 6 months ago- Inching Toward Movement Ecology via Carl Zimmer / The Loom, in Princeton University Collective Animal Behaviour Laboratory
The model shows that only a tiny number of "informed" individuals" that is - those familiar with a food source or migration path - are required to bring around the whole group, they reported in the 3 February 2005 issue of Nature. These few are somehow able to get "naive" members to "reconcile the tendency to clump together" with the tendency to follow those in the know, says Couzin. The researchers found that the larger the group, the smaller the proportion of leaders required. In the case of bees, this behavior likely evolved as a more efficient way to transfer information: Only a few individuals need to take the time to observe the waggle dance, and the rest just follow along. Inching Toward Movement Ecology Princeton University Collective Animal Behaviour Laboratory Image via The Loom The study of change within species. This is just fascinating. The quote here above makes me think about human societies and the societal function of visual arts. It's always a question of "collective how to act" that visual arts were deemed to illustrate in visual signs for all to share. In animism the shaman gives the direction by infusing in his tribe members a holistic vision where all the particles are interconnected. Religion that follows will force-glue the citizens behind a simple foundational story and modernity will break down all stories gluing the individuals. But we discover in late modernity that this path through individualism is threatening the very survival of the human species. The studies on movement ecology could perhaps teach us something vital in term of the road toward the survival of humanity.
- Inching Toward Movement Ecology via Carl Zimmer / The Loom, in Princeton University Collective Animal Behaviour Laboratory
