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A tarn flock will tend to cohere, to stay together, and it will also maintain a bird-to-bird distance. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #15)

"Three-strap," I called, and Ichiro blew the signal, and the flock turned downward and to the right. "Rings free!" I called to Ichiro, and he blew the appropriate blast, and the flock leveled out in its flight, and continued on the path on which it had been set. Of great assistance in such matters is the natural flocking behavior of tarns, which consists of three genetically coded behaviors, two of which deal with spatiality and one with velocity. A tarn flock will tend to cohere, to stay together, and it will also maintain a bird-to-bird distance. These spatial habituations are then linked with a tendency to match velocity. In this fashion a flock of birds, even in the wild, will engage effortlessly in what appear to be astonishingly swift and complex maneuvers. "Five-strap!" I called. - (Swordsmen of Gor)