Swimming in a school shelters fish from turbulence.

PLoS Biol

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.

Published: June 2024

Much has been written about the energetic effects of animals moving in schools or flocks, but experimental results are few and often ambiguous. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that schooling greatly reduces the cost of transport for fish in turbulent flow.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11161012PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002677DOI Listing

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