Social Organisation and Information Transfer in Schooling Fish

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 217-239

  Ioannou, Christos C ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^a   James, Richard ^b   Croft, Darren P ^c   Krause, Jens ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective motion, how fishes interact with one another in the absence of stimuli; Group vigilance, benefit strategy, to decrease predation risk in groups; Mathematics, and computer simulation predicting group level behaviours, from simple interactions; Mechanisms and feedback in information transfer; Model of Couzin et al. (2002) four types of collective behaviour in natural fish shoals; Responding to motion of near neighbours functionality of schools; Response to internal state, external stimuli information processing within schools; Social organisation and information transfer in schooling fish information acquisition and processing, integral to fishes; Starting point, considering 'who associates with whom' in social learning, individuals with strong social ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930375079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444342536.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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