<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="PlaceType"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="PlaceName"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="place"/>
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Jerry quoted:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So what
we found that instead of this being some collective, cooperative behaviour,
what we have in fact is a forced march. Every cricket is trying to eat the one
ahead and prevent itself from being eaten from behind. We found that they were
very aggressive with each other, attacking an immobile insect within 17 seconds
and really jumping on it and biting it. So one may then ask questions; why, if
it's so dangerous to be in a swarm, why don't they leave? But another colleague
at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Greg Sword,
using tiny little radio transmitters on these crickets found that it's even
more dangerous to leave the group because they get eaten by predators. So
really they're making the best of a rather bad situation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:blue'>[WS:] They must be radical left-winged crickets </span></font><font
color=blue face=Wingdings><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:blue'>J</span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:blue'>Wojtek<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>