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The seventh starling |
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| Authors: | Andrea Cavagna Irene Giardina |
| Affiliation: | Statistical physicists at the Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, CNR-INFM, Rome, Italy (see ). |
| Abstract: | A flock of starlings wheel overhead, thousands of birds rising, falling, turning as if of one mind. Birds move in flocks; fish in schools; insects in swarms. How do they do it? Can we study them to find quantitative answers or must we simply admire them? Andrea Cavagna and Irene Giardina do both. |
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