Collective Response of Zebrafish Shoals to a Free-Swimming Robotic Fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Butail, Sachit ^a   Bartolini, Tiziana ^a   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NONHUMAN; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWIMMING; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84885772918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076123     Document Type: Article

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