Talk:Herd

message: Do not move to wiktionary, a herd or flock has an extremely important role to play in animal behaviour and can be analysed as such, it is more than a word. Dunc|☺ 11:46, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Do not move to wiktionary

message: In the caption to the first picture, it says 'a flock of geese'. However, isn't the plural noun for geese a 'gaggle'? I am changing it, but would appreciate feedback, rather than starting an edit war. Daniel (☎) 15:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What I learned somewhere is that a flock of geese in the air can be called a "skein", and a flock on the ground or in the water can be called a "gaggle".  Thus your change is correct.  However, I agree with the people who say that most such collective nouns are fanciful and there's no real need to go beyond "herd", "flock", "pack", "school" or "shoal", "colony", "swarm", and maybe "covey" and "troop" and "pod" and "pride".  So I wouldn't have changed "flock of geese", but I'm not going to change "gaggle of geese" either.  —JerryFriedman 18:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A 'flock' of geese?

message: The statement "It is generally believed that the most important protective factor is risk dilution" is unsourced and to me it doesn't make sense. A hungry cheetah is going to eat just an many antelope in a herd as scattered individuals. In fact, probably more because the antelope are gathered together in a buffet instead of hiding. I found a more reasonable explanation at  but this isn't a reliable source. This isn't my area of expertise, which is why I'm trying to find the answer here, and it would be appreciated if someone who knows this subject could fix the section.RDBury (talk) 15:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I had the same thought. In a herd the probability of being caught by a predator during a confrontation with a predator is lower but the number of confrontations is higher by exactly the inverse factor, unless of course there are secondary effects such as the herd coordinating defense or predators getting confused by, for example, the movement of a large number of striped zebras or darting fish. So I'm removing that sentence. 89.99.122.33 (talk) 20:11, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do animals herd? section, expert attention requested 

message: I might be a city boy, but those look like goats to me. LorenzoB (talk) 05:12, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo - 'Boy Herding Sheep' 

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