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| May 1, 2018 at 20:27 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | If this was the explanation, you'd expect to see a full "fan" of birds rather than a V, where every bird has two more behind it on both the right and left side. There's no reason why birds on the left side of the V should all organize to keep the bird in front of them on their front-right. But they do, and it's because only on the outside of the V are they getting the vortex from the bird directly in front of them, and not the wash from all the other birds further up the formation. Birds don't line up on the interior of the V for a reason, and this explanation does not provide that reason. | |
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| Jan 4, 2018 at 19:31 | history | answered | RamblinRose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |