BS: When herd instinct is wonderful

Subject: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:41 AM

Last night I saw this amazing video on sheep herding in Wales - please leave dumb sheep shagging jokes at the door and wanted to share on Mudcat.

extreme sheep herding from Baa-Studs

Then I started wondering about what other herding vids might be out there and remembered this

Cat herding movie

Always good for a giggle.

These look like geese to me. Well farmyard fowl of some sort.

dog herding ducks

Not exactly herd or maybe it is as a stampede in any form is basically herd instinct driven by collective FEAR.

Running with squirrels

Please add more you think might apply.

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:23 AM

And when herd instinct is lovely this.

Starlings on Otmoor

Would some nice Mod please change thread title to

When herd instinct is wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:42 AM

and some more bird herd videos

Starlings in Denmark

Starlings in Somerset

California bird herd

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: GUEST,mauvepink
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:54 AM

I cannot youtube things or do videos as I am still on dialup BUt do try and take a look at some diver's shoaling films.... Fish make beautiful scenes in shoals I think

mp

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:58 AM

and flocks of fish

swirling shoal of fish

more fish

grim but amazing

underwater clouds of fish

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: GUEST,mauvepink
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 09:11 AM

Thanks for getting them for members Virginia Tam :)

mp

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is funny.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 09:34 AM

and when human herds are very good

great human herd

And I was there at Live 8, Edinburgh, just 2 months to the day after my daughter. This event was just the sort of thing Andie would support wholeheartedly and it gave me great hope for human kind to see all these people from around the globe united in such a good cause.

I remember this flag dragon at Make Poverty History demonstration

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:11 AM

I saw a school (flock?) of Eagle Rays from a pier in Florida a few years back. It was remarkable, like birds flying through the water.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:48 AM

Joe, that is stunning! Beautiful!

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:44 AM

oh I have tingles... I just love rays. Envy the lazy, supple gliding. Think I'll come back as a ray.

school of rays

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:01 AM

I can remember seeing a flock of starlings like that, Tam...sitting in a car park, and they came home to roost in the trees there. It was an amazing site!

Seems to me it's just humans who don't herd well...

The squirrels video is funny.... :0)

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:34 AM

Returning to human herds, TSO and I travelled up to Edinburgh on an OXFAM arranged coach. Travelled all night and arrived at the Meadow well before anything really started. This gave us some time to relax after the trip and just sit and people watch and wander about and visit stalls.

It was remarkable how many elderly people were on the coach and coming off other coaches and walking around at the event. I mean by elderly 70+.   Funny going up, we were all quite shy and quiet, but too keyed up to really sleep. Going back, everyone was so excited and yet exhausted. We talked until we finally petered out.

TSO and I made a banner prior to going. It was stretched across two curtain poles and had messages both front and back. On one side Make Poverty History and Fair Trade not Free Trade. The other side had a blown up picture of an emaciated child. The message was "This a child, not a statistic." Or something like that.

Marching was made so much easier by being in hearing range of SheBoom all female drum band from Glasgow. The collective energy was thrilling.

more Make Poverty History Edinburgh

I want to go on another demonstration.   Need that connection with strangers all met in good cause. Just don't think I am physically capable of it now. bummer.

Subject: RE: BS: When herd instinct is wonderful
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:32 PM

The Welsh sheep-herders are a howl!