deer protect their young from predators, the young dear are in the center of the circle where the predator can’t get to
a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a “death spiral” because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion
If someone is lost as I was:
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deer protect their young from predators, the young dear are in the center of the circle where the predator can’t get to a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a “death spiral” because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion
Some other animals too. Especially Turkeys can also get into a “death spiral” similar to ants!
Turkeys? Some of us have their own death spiral to worry about.
Death spiral sounds like something you’d do at a metal concert