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PBS  THIRTEEN’s Nature series will profile The Gathering Swarms
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 on PBS. The lineup includes bees, bats,
cicadas, desert locusts, emperor penguins, mayflies  It is quite
a spectacle when animals come together in inconceivable numbers:
sometimes in the millions, billions, and even trillions. When
swarms gather, a kind of super-organism is created in which
individual intelligence is superseded by a collective
consciousness that shares information and moves with a single
purpose for the benefit of all. This behavior applies to a
number of creatures that form these great gatherings for a
variety of reasons: to breed, migrate, find food, and even to
protect themselves.  Using high-speed camera techniques, The
Gathering Swarms captures these world-wide displays and explains
why they occur. The documentary ai