murmurations
After a disappointing world cup final and 3 hr of sleep the previous night, I slept peacefully last night for 8 hours. The morning ritual these days is checking mails immediately after gaining some consciousness, today learned a new word first thing in the morning – Murmuration. I thought that was a made up word given as title to newsletters these days. Finally asked Google and watched some incredible videos of nature’s ballet in Youtube (nature’s dance and man’s music). Got hooked and continued watching and reading on these birds. Some interesting things about this phenomena – This is often reaction to presence of a predator like Hawk or Falcon. Threat can be a great motivator. – Research says it is called “scale-free correlation”. “The change in the behavioral state of one animal affects and is affected by that of all other animals in the group, no matter how...