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Moving animals as a group by exploiting their terror of being the one alone.
means The act of gathering and moving a group of animals (or, loosely, people) together in one direction, usually by working their instincts rather than fighting them.
from From Old English 'heord,' meaning a group of animals kept together — itself from a very old Germanic root tied to flocks and cattle, with distant cousins in other Indo-European languages carrying the same sense of a kept, moving group. The verb grew naturally from the noun: a 'herd' became something you 'herd,' turning the animal mob into an action you perform on it.
- predator mimicry
- Sheepdogs herd by imitating wolf stalking behavior.
- economics term
- Herding also describes investors blindly copying each other.
- oldest profession claim
- Herding predates farming by thousands of years.
- instinct exploited
- Works because prey animals equate the group with survival.