AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -As a verb, flock means to gather together as a flock or to move together in a group.

Detailed explanation-2: -Flock, a collective noun for various animal groups: Flock (birds), a group of birds. Flock, a herd of sheep, goats or similar animals. Flock, a crowd of people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Large flocks exceeding 100, 000 individuals occur in the presence of favorable levels of environmental factors that usually limit local population size.

Detailed explanation-4: -to move or come together in large numbers: Hundreds of people flocked to the football match. [ + to infinitive ] Crowds of people flocked to see the Picasso exhibition.

Detailed explanation-5: -Flocking is the phenomenon that individuals all move with approximately the same velocity, so that they remain together as a group. Animals that exhibit flocking range in size from buffalo to bacteria. Biologists were the first scientists to investigate flocking.