Synchronized swimming: How startled fish shoals effectively evade danger

(American Institute of Physics) As panic spreads, an entire shoal (collective) of fish responds to an incoming threat in a matter of seconds, seemingly as a single body, to change course and evade a threatening predator. The ways in which this information spreads and the role played by position dynamics may help us better plan for emergencies.

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