Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-animals-form-swarms-maria-r-d-orsogna When many individual organisms come together and move as one entity, that’s a swarm. From a handful of birds to billions of insects, swarms can be almost any size. They have no leader, and members interact only with their neighbors or through indirect cues. Members follow simple rules: travel in the same direction as those around you, stay close and avoid collisions. Maria R. D’Orsogna shares why. Lesson by Maria R. D’Orsogna, animation by Matt Reynolds. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Joren Schiks, Аркадий Скайуокер, Milad Mostafavi, Rob Johnson, Singh Devesh Sourabh, Ashley Maldonado, Clarence E. Harper Jr., Bojana Golubovic, Mihail Radu Pantilimon, Sarah Yaghi, Benedict Chuah, Karthik Cherala, haventfiguredout , Violeta Cervantes, Elaine Fitzpatrick, Lyn-z Schulte, Sharon Chou, Henrique 'Sorín' Cassús, Tim Robinson, Kiarash Asar, Jun Cai, Paul Schneider, Amber Wood, Nathalia Ortega Bravo, Ophelia Gibson Best, Cas Jamieson, Michelle Stevens-Stanford, Phyllis Dubrow, Andreas Voltios, Aliyya Rachmadi, Eunsun Kim, Philippe Spoden, Samantha Chow, Armando Ello, Minh Tran, Ayala Ron, Manognya Chakrapani, Simon Holst Ravn, Doreen Reynolds-Consolati, Rakshit Kothari, Melissa Sorrells, Antony Lee, Husain Mohammad, Dino Hrnjić, Max Shuai Tang, Côme Vincent, Astia Rizki Safitri, Alan Froese, Zhufeng Wang, alessandra tasso, Daniel Mardale, Jamerson Chingapanini, Gerald Onyango, Dalton Valette, Katrina Harding, Ezgi Yersu, Al the Scottish Wildcat, Katie Dean, Kin Lon Ma, Carsten Tobehn, Boris Langvand, Jeremy Fryd, Ran Ben Dov, Charlene You, Jarrel Cacdac, Carolyn Corwin and rakesh Katragadda.