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Title: | Inferring the rules of interaction of shoaling fish | Contributor(s): | Herbert-Read, James E (author); Perna, Andrea (author); Mann, Richard P (author); Schaerf, Timothy (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2011 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1109355108![]() |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18280 | Abstract: | Collective motion, where large numbers of individuals move synchronously together, is achieved when individuals adopt interaction rules that determine how they respond to their neighbors' movements and positions. These rules determine how group-living animals move, make decisions, and transmit information between individuals. Nonetheless, few studies have explicitly determined these interaction rules in moving groups, and very little is known about the interaction rules of fish. Here, we identify three key rules for the social interactions of mosquitofish ('Gambusia holbrooki'): (i) Attraction forces are important in maintaining group cohesion, while we find only weak evidence that fish align with their neighbor's orientation; (ii) repulsion is mediated principally by changes in speed; (iii) although the positions and directions of all shoal members are highly correlated, individuals only respond to their single nearest neighbor. The last two of these rules are different from the classical models of collective animal motion, raising new questions about how fish and other animals self-organize on the move. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(46), p. 18726-18731 | Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 010202 Biological Mathematics 060201 Behavioural Ecology 060801 Animal Behaviour |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 310901 Animal behaviour 310301 Behavioural ecology 490102 Biological mathematics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970101 Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences 280118 Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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