捕食魚は,仮想の獲物の中で協調した集団運動のために選択します

C C Ioannou1, V Guttal, I D Couzin

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. C.C.Ioannou@bristol.ac.uk

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 21, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

群生魚のような捕食動物の集団運動は,捕食者に対する防御として進化することができます. 動きを調整することで,捕食者は捕食者を検出することなくとも,攻撃される可能性が低くなります.

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