FishSchooling

Fish Schooling

• Definition of schooling

What types of fish school?

• how common is schooling behavior
• Types of fish most likely to school
  • Reef fish vs. open-water fish
    • relative advantages
• differences between fish schools and pods/groups of marine mammals

Why fish school

• Predator avoidance
  • Difficulty of tracking movement of a single fish
  • Decreased vulnerability to predators
• Cooperation
  • Sharks and barracuda sometimes hunt in groups, for example
  • Less likely to be long-term schooling events
• Hydrodynamics
  • Schooling can make it easier for fish to change direction, move more quickly
  • examples and explanation
• Mating events
  • examples

How fish school

• Lateral Line System
  • Define Lateral Line System, physiological
  • Explain
  • Mention that fish can school even when blinded
• Hormonal signals
  • Basis of chemical signaling