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Flock in sentence

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These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence.
There were 662 rejected sheep that didn't meet "sheep-like" criteria and were thrown out of the flock.
And whenever we saw a flock of birds that had electronic communication, we thought, 'Probably has something to do with the Americans.'"
They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, and they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first year.
When you first start this and you bring in a flock of animals, it's desert.
Well birds are pretty hard-wired, as it happens, so most of that is already in their DNA, but to supplement it, part of Ben's idea is to use homing pigeons to help train the young passenger pigeons how to flock and how to find their way to their old nesting grounds and feeding grounds.
And so then, three months later, I finally nailed down a harsh deadline with this guy, and I get into his lab, I get all excited, and then I sit down, I start opening my mouth and talking, and five seconds later, he calls in another Ph.D. Ph.D.s just flock into this little room, and they're just firing these questions at me, and by the end, I kind of felt like I was in a clown car.
He says, "No, no, no, you don't understand, I have been defending my flock against lions and wolves for years.
He's spent his entire career using a sling to defend his flock against lions and wolves.
A herd of wildebeests, a shoal of fish, a flock of birds.
The second reasons students flock to Cuba is the island's own health report card, relying on strong primary care.
He used the example of a common grazing area in which each person by simply maximizing their own flock led to overgrazing and the depletion of the resource.
Chickens live in groups, so first of all, he selected just an average flock, and he let it alone for six generations.
And so normally when you summit Half Dome, you have a rope and a bunch of climbing gear on you, and tourists gasp and they flock around you for photos.
(Canku One Star dances) (Choir chants) (Drums) (Drumming and chanting) (Drumming and chanting) (Drumming and chanting) (Music ends) (Applause) (Violin plays) (Music) (Music ends) (Applause) Have you ever watched a flock of birds work together?
So we need alignment and autonomy at the same time, just like a flock of birds.
When you think of a fish school, or when I think of a flock of starlings, that feels like a really different kind of intelligence.
There's two old adages: "Birds of a feather flock together."
Well, the psychological research suggests ... birds of a feather flock together, and we like people who are like us.
When she gets there, she catches sight of the troublesome sheep wriggling into the middle of a flock.
From her farm in rural Georgia, surrounded by a flock of pet birds, Flannery O’Connor scribbled tales of outcasts, intruders and misfits staged in the world she knew best: the American South.
A sizable flock of vultures is capable of bringing down a carcass the size of a zebra straight to the bone within just about 30 minutes.
They mate with his domesticated geese, and his flock continues.
Now, to get into that, let me begin with what might have occurred to you immediately when you hear that we're talking about synchrony in nature, which is the glorious example of birds that flock together, or fish swimming in organized schools.
And this is why you can do nothing but point at the flock of starlings whose bodies rise and fall in inherited choreography, swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain that, for one blistering moment, forms the unmistakeable shape of a giant bird flapping against the sky.
Moved by his plight, the wind brothers set upon the flock, providing Phineas with a brief respite from his punishment.
A flock of relatives descended on her.
Another possibility, very obvious, is homophily, or, birds of a feather flock together; here, I form my tie to you because you and I share a similar body size.
Like, for example, a hive of bees that's finding a new nesting site, or a flock of birds that's evading a predator, or a flock of birds that's able to pool its wisdom and navigate and find a tiny speck of an island in the middle of the Pacific, or a pack of wolves that's able to bring down larger prey.
The problem with this is that essentially what you end up getting after a while is the wisdom of the flock.
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