Two adventurers set out in a canoe and happened upon a flock of starlings (collectively known as a murmuration) doing their amazing collective dance in the sky. Something mysteriously beautiful.
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Emergent behavior
Emergent behavior is a name for studying flocking, crowds, etc.
What is shows is that simple rules (do what the bird in front of you does; or, one car slows down on a highway) can lead to interesting patterns of behavior (a flock; a traffic jam).
I believe it’s a branch of chaos theory, but might be wrong on that.