you’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase
birds of a feather flock together
this particular swarm of flamingos lives
in the Serengeti National Park in
Tanzania Africa why do they gather in
such large colonies safety and
protection of course once they are safe
and protected flamingos like these are
free to devote their time to things like
preening which is using their bills to
distribute oil from a gland at the base
of their tail to their feathers for
waterproofing another big reason that
flamingos swarm like this is the need to
display themselves for the purposes of
breeding who knows what kind of romantic
scenarios are playing out here as we
watch them strut around it’s kind of
like a singles bar except outside in
natural light and no alcohol
speaking of swarms here’s a giant clock
of pileus also known as the East African
Weaver birth it’s not hard to see why
these birds are often mistaken for the
locusts they swarm in groups that have
numbered over a million these particular
kill iasts are in the Okavango in Africa
they’re less than five inches long and
weigh just about half an ounce but as a
swarm they can have an incredible impact
on local farmers a swarm can destroy up
to 60 tons of grain in a single day
our final swarm is this gathering of
butterflies in the oyamel fir forests of
LD Rosario Mexico millions of
butterflies are fluttering together and
the only thing more astonishing than the
epic size of the swarm is the journey
these monarchs took to get here first
consider the distance these delicate
creatures flutter 2,000 miles from the
United States to get here now ponder
this astonishing fact they fly here by
pure instinct only every fourth or fifth
generation of butterfly makes this
colossal Odyssey these are probably the
great great great grandkids of the last
generation of monarchs who flew down
here to bond with their buds so how do
they know to make this migration
scientists consider this one of nature’s
greatest mysteries
birds of a feather flock together
this particular swarm of flamingos lives
in the Serengeti National Park in
Tanzania Africa why do they gather in
such large colonies safety and
protection of course once they are safe
and protected flamingos like these are
free to devote their time to things like
preening which is using their bills to
distribute oil from a gland at the base
of their tail to their feathers for
waterproofing another big reason that
flamingos swarm like this is the need to
display themselves for the purposes of
breeding who knows what kind of romantic
scenarios are playing out here as we
watch them strut around it’s kind of
like a singles bar except outside in
natural light and no alcohol
speaking of swarms here’s a giant clock
of pileus also known as the East African
Weaver birth it’s not hard to see why
these birds are often mistaken for the
locusts they swarm in groups that have
numbered over a million these particular
kill iasts are in the Okavango in Africa
they’re less than five inches long and
weigh just about half an ounce but as a
swarm they can have an incredible impact
on local farmers a swarm can destroy up
to 60 tons of grain in a single day
our final swarm is this gathering of
butterflies in the oyamel fir forests of
LD Rosario Mexico millions of
butterflies are fluttering together and
the only thing more astonishing than the
epic size of the swarm is the journey
these monarchs took to get here first
consider the distance these delicate
creatures flutter 2,000 miles from the
United States to get here now ponder
this astonishing fact they fly here by
pure instinct only every fourth or fifth
generation of butterfly makes this
colossal Odyssey these are probably the
great great great grandkids of the last
generation of monarchs who flew down
here to bond with their buds so how do
they know to make this migration
scientists consider this one of nature’s
greatest mysteries
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