A new study by UC San Diego neurobiologists found that glassfish depend on their sense of vision to coordinate social swimming behavior in schools. A flock of ...

Sometimes less is more. Researchers accurately modeled dynamic fish schooling by incorporating the tendency of fish to focus on a single visual target instead of the whole school, as well as other ...

Schools of fish are mesmerizing examples of collective animal behavior. Thousands of individuals move in near-perfect synchrony, despite each fish having only a limited view of their surroundings. How ...

The sea can be a dark and scary place, where survival often depends on not being alone. In the vast, open water, fish rarely swim solo. Instead, they aggregate into schools or shoals as a strategy to ...

University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant behavior after a change in the pecking order. In a ...

Each fish is modeled by a plate with an eye, moving on a plane. The signals from other fish are synthesized and guide the motion of visual attention. Vortex, straight, random, and turning patterns of ...