The role of vision and lateral line sensing for schooling in giant danios (Devario aequipinnatus).

Schooling is a collective behavior that relies on a fish's ability to sense and respond to the other fish around it. Previous work has identified 'rules' of schooling - attraction to neighbors that are far away, repulsion from neighbors that are too close and alignment with neighbors at the correct distance - but we do not understand well how these rules emerge from the sensory physiology and behavior of individual fish. In particular, fish use both vision and their lateral lines to sense each other, but it is unclear how much they rely on information from these sensory modalities to coordinate schooling behavior.