Hundredth monkey effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hundredth monkey effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The hundredth monkey effect is a supposed phenomenon in which a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. By generalization it means the instantaneous, paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability."