Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:13:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Callahan Subject: Re: flocking MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Rob, I only checked one reference for your request. It was my old college Ornithology text book that was printed in 1988. It was the Fourth Edition of The Life of Birds, by Joel Carl Welty and Luis Baptista. It was published by Saunders College Publishing. Try page 201. Good luck with your article! Naturally, Mike Callahan On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:58:13 -0500 Robert Weiner writes: > ospreyers, > > on a sleety grey afternoon, working instead of (tufted) duckhunting, > I > would be grateful for a reference/citation regarding the benefits of > flocking, particularly for ease of predator detection. > > this is for a research article on investors, regarding when they all > tend > to move in the same direction, currently termed "herding." I'm > hoping to > sneak the term "flocking" into the scholarly finance literature! > > thanks very much, > rob > > Robert Weiner (rweiner@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu) > International Business Department > George Washington University > Washington DC 20052 > 202 994 5981 > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================