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Domesticated sheep are herd animals that are bred for agricultural trade. A flock of sheep is mated by a single ram, which has either been chosen by a farmer or, in feral populations, has established dominance through physical contests with other rams. [1] Sheep have a breeding season (tupping) in the autumn, though some can breed year-round. [1]
All sheep have a tendency to congregate close to other members of a flock, although this behavior varies with breed, [30] and sheep can become stressed when separated from their flock members. [24] During flocking, sheep have a strong tendency to follow, and a leader may simply be the first individual to move.
Shimmering behaviour of Apis dorsata (giant honeybees). A group of animals fleeing from a predator shows the nature of herd behavior, for example in 1971, in the oft-cited article "Geometry for the Selfish Herd", evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton asserted that each individual group member reduces the danger to itself by moving as close as possible to the center of the fleeing group.
Videos from a China farm in Inner Mongolia show a flock of sheep in one pen circling continuously, but nobody seems to know why. Watch: Flock of sheep walking in a circle for 12 days is a mystery ...
Boy herding a flock of sheep, India; a classic example of the domestic herding of animals Wildebeest at the Ngorongoro Crater; an example of a herd in the wild. A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic.
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A flock of auklets exhibit swarm behaviour. Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. It is a highly interdisciplinary topic. [1]