0 present participle of flock --
1 to move or come together in large numbers: --
[ + to infinitive ] Crowds of people flocked to see the Picasso exhibition.
2 to cover a surface with a soft material in order to decorate it: --
Is it any wonder (especially given the incredible importance of ecology and medicine and the incredible power of molecular biology) that college students are flocking to biology departments?
Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis.
There are also group motions such as flocking, streaming and contortion.
If streams are empty of fish, this is because they are flocking in the treetops as birds.
For example, the behaviour they exhibited, such as the robots 'flocking' around a leader, had not been programmed into their circuits.
In this way the extended flocking algorithm maintains a group's formation and local obstacle avoidance, leading to the natural-looking movement of agents between goals.
One can imagine flocking motion passing through a variety of multidirectional growth processes.
Frequency of mixed species flocking in tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison.
