More than 70,000 people will flood into the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans this Superbowl weekend, while thousands more swarm through the city's French Quarter. From a certain perspective, might those football fans resemble, say, a herd of wildebeest or school of fish? Or maybe a murmuration of starlings? Some scientists think the essential components of flocking behavior, an instinctive tendency to join with others and follow their lead, remain alive inside us.
