Name: The Gathering Swarms
Released: 2014-05-21

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S32 · E17 — The Gathering Swarms

S32:E17 · The Gathering Swarms

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19 episodes in this season

Earthflight: North America

Earthflight: Africa

Earthflight: Europe

Earthflight: South America

Earthflight: Asia and Australia

Earthflight: Flying High

Saving Otter 501

53 min

Love in the Animal Kingdom

53 min

Parrot Confidential

53 min

E10

Meet the Coywolf

53 min

E11

The Funkiest Monkeys

53 min

E12

Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem

53 min

E13

Ireland's Wild River

53 min

E14

My Bionic Pet

53 min

E15

Touching the Wild

53 min

E16

Snow Monkeys

53 min

E17

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E18

Leave It to Beavers

53 min

E19

Fabulous Frogs

53 min

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Season 32 · Episode 17 · May 21, 2014

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 But in the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares information and moves with a single purpose for the benefit of all.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.

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Season 32 · Episode 17 · May 21, 2014

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