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  • Nature The Gathering Swarms (Season 32, Episode 18)
  • TV-G
    TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary, Family

Nature

The Gathering Swarms (Season 32, Episode 18)
TV-G
TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary, Family
From PBS - A look at some of the planet's great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers - sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions. Included are bats and bees, locust and ants, monarch butterflies in ...See moreFrom PBS - A look at some of the planet's great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers - sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions. Included are bats and bees, locust and ants, monarch butterflies in Mexico, 17-year cicada hatches, grunion in the Sea of Cortez and carp in the Mississippi River, sardine runs off the coast of South Africa, super flocks of parakeets in the Australian Outback, mayflies on the 4th of July, and even penguins and wildebeest. Some gather to breed or to migrate, some for protection, some simply to keep warm in the cold. But in the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares information and moves with a single purpose for the benefit of all. Check out swarm intelligence, essentially a living embodiment of social media in the natural world. Written by Anonymous See less
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Writers
John Downer (written by) | George Page (creator)
Editor
Stuart Napier
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Updated May 21, 2014
Release date
May 21, 2014 (United States)
Awards
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Won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 16 wins & 53 nominations

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