FishSchooling
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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
- Reef fish vs. open-water fish
- 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 and social behavior in fishes
- describe
- 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
Works Cited
- Reebs, S. 2001. Fish Behavior in the Aquarium and in the Wild. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press; 252 p.
- Brown, C., Laland, K. and Krause J. 2006. Fish Cognition and Behavior. Oxford, U.K. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 328 p.
- A Blind Fish Can School http://www.sciencemag.org/content/194/4268/963.abstract
- Schooling as a Strategy for Taxis in a Noisy Environment http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/768/art%253A10.1023%252FA%253A1006574607845.pdf?auth66=1393605258_95cdded1d81e235d25cae2002b5dcd30&ext=.pdf
- Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6099/1212.full?sid=4e420d1a-bf0a-4d32-8c61-1a1949dcd152#ref-14