FishSchooling
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Fish Schooling
Schooling is a social behavior in which fish align and stay close to one another as members of a group. [1] Many animals live in groups, but unlike most such groups (herds of deer,for example) a school of fish has a consistent geometric orientation. Fish in a school swim parallel to each other, are evenly spaced, and move in almost perfect synchronization.[2] Seen in this way, a school of fish can resemble a single fluid organism.
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
- ↑ Grunbaum, Daniel. 1998. “Schooling as a strategy for taxis in a noisy environment”. Evolutionary Ecology[Internet]. http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/768/art%253A10.1023%252FA%253A1006574607845.pdf?auth66=1393865989_f7f8646a3e3802005dc2b710fadb8179&ext=.pdf
- ↑ Shaw, Evelyn. 1962. “The Schooling of Fishes”. Scientific American[Internet].http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v206/n6/pdf/scientificamerican0662-128.pdf