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Show I Why Geese Fly In V-Formation ' "A Roose, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, "flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical society so-ciety could not improve." Wild geese and ducks often fly in a V-shaped formation, but naturalists nat-uralists have discounted the popular popu-lar notion that the leader of the flock, flying at the apex of the triangle, tri-angle, breaks the wind for the entire en-tire group. A certain amount of wind is believed advantageous to the sustained flight of birds; however, how-ever, by advancing in wedge formation for-mation each bird avoids the wake of the bird preceding and is able to see the leader more clearly than would be possible in any other formation. |