Thus, as flock size increased, it took more individual departures before the whole flock took flight.
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When flocks were disturbed by people or dogs, they were more cohesive, with more departures being of whole flocks.
Flocking has also been considered as a means of controlling the behavior of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
Flocking behavior is the behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight.
The latter accounted for the majority of movement events but after weighting by flock size the former accounted for the majority of bird movements.
With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way, creating complex motion and interaction that would be extremely hard to create otherwise.
Flights of sanderlings tended to be either of all birds in the flock on the ground, or of single birds or groups representing only a small proportion of the foraging flock.
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Flocking behavior was simulated on a computer in 1987 by Craig Reynolds with his simulation program, Boids.
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Using a powerful physics engine that drives many of the game's elements, FLOCK features over 50 pastoral puzzles.
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The authors showed that the specifics of flying behaviour as well as large flocksize and low number of interaction partners were essential to the creation of the variable shape of flocks of starlings.
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Calidris albawere observed at Redcar, northeast England, in order to investigate how individual decisions to fly related to the behaviour of other flock members.
As flock size increased, the number of birds that flew without the whole flock taking flight increased.
Another recent study is based on an analysis of high speed camera footage of flocks above Rome, and uses a computer model assuming minimal behavioural rules.
When one person was designated as a predator and everyone else was to avoid him, the flock behaved very much like a school of fish.
