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The Math and Mystery of Murmurations
- Published_at:2014-04-28
- Category:Education
- Channel:SciShow
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- description: If you've ever seen a group of starlings in flight, you've appreciated one of nature's most hypnotic sights -- the lava-lamp-like flow of a murmuration. SciShow explains the biology and mathematics behind this beautiful phenomenon. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.collective-behavior.com/publ/KingSumpter2012.pdf http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/starling-flock/ http://blog.allaboutbirds.org/2013/02/21/how-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/02/the-murmurations-of-starlings/100690/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2242 http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2588 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/11/1005766107.abstract http://www.wired.com/2010/06/starling-physics/
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