Schooling Fish Under Attack Are Not All Equal: Some Lead, Others Follow

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Marras, Stefano ^a   Domenici, Paolo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FISH; FISH SCHOOL; GOLDEN GREY MULLET; JUVENILE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SIMULATION; STIMULATION; THREAT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MASS BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMEGMAMORPHA; STARTLE REACTION; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; LIZA AURATA; MUGILIDAE;

EID: 84878908922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065784     Document Type: Article

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