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Swimming in a school shelters fish from turbulence
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
Plos Biology
|June 7, 2024
Abstract:
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.

