The birds form mobs to drive away predators near their nests, and are initially disordered. A new study, by biologists at the University of Exeter, physicists at Stanford University and computer scientists from Simon Fraser University in Canada, shows a dramatic switch to “ordered motion” once the group reaches a certain density. Chaotic mobs of jackdaws suddenly get organised once enough birds join in, this research shows. (1)
Chaos… Chaos… Chaos…
Only to bear order…
Could anything be more chaotic* than that?!
* In chaos you expect… chaos!