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What mechanics allow these birds to swarm without crashing into each other?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) July 25th, 2015

Even with the most sophisticated computers and aircraft you could not get them to fly in formation in numbers not nearly as much as these birds, so how do they do it? Is it the high tension wires giving them direction and instruction, and of they did this before high tension wires what was directing them? Is it gravity, electromagnetic impulses, avian ESP? Who is the lead bird making the decision where to fly, how high, for how long? Where can one find something concrete unraveling the mystery?

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