And swarm intelligence offers several good examples of how concepts in biology can be applied to other fields.

Will, there's nothing but swarm. We are a swarm without end.

I'd like to continue our discussion of animal behavior, and start off today's class by focusing on a concept we haven't yet touched upon: swarm intelligence.

Swarm intelligence is a collective behavior that emerges from a group of animals like a colony of termites, a school of fish, or a flock of birds.

Let's first consider the principles behind swarm intelligence and we'll use the ant as our model.

There have also been attempts to create computer-generated crowds of people using this bird flocking model of swarm intelligence.

The workers from the two colonies faced off in two swarms and displayed and fought with each other.

The two swarms abandoned the battle at about 8 or 9 A.M. each morning, only to re-form and begin again the next day just after dawn.

A swarm of people encircled the hotel.

The White House was swarming with security men.

They swarmed across the bridge.

A dark cloud of bees comes swarming out of the hive.

The lift was swarmed by us.