By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsFile -- In a school of rummy-nose tetras, a common aquarium fish, group coordination appears to occur by each fish continuously changing which of its neighbors it pays attention to, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology.
The seamless group movements seen in some schools of fish and flocks of birds depend on individuals sharing directional information and changing direction based on each other’s movements. However, it is unclear how many neighbors each individual pays attention to, and where they are located within the group.
To better understand these interactions, Li Jiang of Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues …
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(2017-12-04), Fish switch attention from neighbor to neighbor for seamless collective movement, NewsFile, 164, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 014802814