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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Flocking dynamics Nature Physics volume 18, pages 1402–1403 (2022)Cite this article 1703 Accesses 3 Citations 20 Altmetric Metrics details Experiments with small flocks of sheep show intermittent collective motion events driven by random leaders that guide the group. A model reveals information pooling capabilities, suggesting a mechanism for swarm intelligence. You have full access to this article via the Georgia Tech Library. Collective animal motion appeals to physicists because of the new types of statistical and dynamical systems that can emerge in the biological world, where interact

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