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Please explain “herd instinct” in this sentence: They will be powerfully influenced by the herd instinct, the feeling that it is better to be wrong in large numbers than to be right alone. My comments: Herd instinct refers to the animal instinct by which a whole group of them stick together, both in times of peace and in face of common danger. Herd, you see, refers to a large flock or school of animals, such as flocks of sheep we see everyday in China or hundreds of gazelles grazing together in Africa. Let’s take the gazelles in the African savanna (grassland), for example. The high jumping gazelles are a weaker species in the food chain. They eat grass and have lions and cheetahs as their major predators. Sure enough, every once in a while, a lion or cheetah will be coming by, lurking in the tall grass, ready to pounce. Gazelles huddle together like a flock of sheep, thinking by sticking together they will be safe. This is true also in time of an actual lion or cheetah attack. Gazelles flee together in one similar direction instead of each going its own way. This strategy sometimes sounds stupid, yet humans cannot blame gazelles or any other lower animals for using this strategy. After all, it is millions of years of evolution at work. Or rather in play. Only humans, you see, are always at work and pride themselves thus; in the natural world, everything and everyone is forever in play. | 
