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In crows, mobbing is a self-reinforcing recruitment LOOP: 82% of scolding events recruited a mob, averaging 6.4 birds (n=103).

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Quantities: 82% of scolds recruit a mob; average mob 6.4 birds; n=103

Primary source

Cornell, Marzluff & Pecoraro 2012, Proc. R. Soc. B

Edges (outgoing)

• relates → Crows acquire dangerous-human recognition mostly by HORIZONTAL social — recruiting a mob is the horizontal social-learning event itself
• relates → In the only directly-testable system (Physarum), body-wide contraction — cross-domain: memory is RE-BROADCAST at each encounter, not statically held aloft

Incoming edges (what points here)

• Crow scolding of a known dangerous-human mask DOUBLED and spread at le — relates → this (recruitment is the local loop that drives the linear spread)
• In the only directly-testable system (Physarum), body-wide contraction — relates → this (cross-domain: the imprint is RE-CAUGHT / re-broadcast each cycle, not statically held (memory falls and is re-caught))