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This Aussie Drone Captured the Sheepish Swarm of Things

Hey, what do you call a group of sheep? A drift.

Hey, what do you call a group of sheep? A drift.

It's really the perfect animal group name in the context of this promotional video from an Australian wool company. The short clip is yet another clear indicator of the slow, gradual integration of small-fry drones into aerial photography. Beyond that, it also shores up the case for deploying these sorts of unmanned systems to unobtrusively track wildlife where it'd normally be quite difficult to do so.

But who are we kidding? What's spectacular here is how it immediately calls to mind murmurations of starlings and the rest of the most beautiful swarm porn.

@thebanderson