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Science 14 April 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3772, pp. 260 - 262
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3772.260
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Internal Behavior in Fish Schools

William N. McFarland 1 and Sanford A. Moss 2

1 Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
2 Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Structural changes within fish schools correlate with declines in environmental oxygen. The changes may result from the responses of individual fish to the environmental consequences of group metabolism. Individual behaviors are adaptive to the school in that they tend to maintain stability between school members and their environment.


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