Chickens 'gang up' to kill intruder fox on French farm

Re:Chickens 'gang up' to kill intruder fox on French farm by vezycash on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:56AM (#19390400)

For social animals like chicken, sheep, even humans the action of the group is often determined by a few - the leaders or the first to act.

If the first chicken panicked and ran, the rest would. I'm guessing the fox ran into the aggressive ones first.

To put humans into context here. Once, a couple of bombs went off in an Amory. People panicked and ran. Everyone ran in the direction of those who ran first.

Long story short, a few died from the blast. But, hundreds died from falling off a cliff and drowning in a canal.

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Re:Chickens 'gang up' to kill intruder fox on French farm by tzs on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:41PM (#19390917)

For animals where leadership is whoever happens to be in front, rather than a specific animal in their social ranking, you can get an hilarious situation where the herd has looped back on itself, so no one (or everyone, depending on how you look at it) is leading [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuS2ThE2q4

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Re:Chickens 'gang up' to kill intruder fox on French farm by magduf on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:13PM (#19390603)

All those people didn't know how to swim? Or was the fall too high?

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Re:Chickens 'gang up' to kill intruder fox on French farm by Kye on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:31PM (#19390817)

Drowning humans latch on to whatever's near out of instinct. Some portion of 100+ doing that will get a lot of good swimmers killed.

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