Antipredator benefits of schooling behaviour in a cyprinodontid fish, the banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus)

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Summary

Individual risk of being attacked and killed by a fish predator declined with increasing killifish school size in a manner closely predicted by the dilution hypothesis, and straying from a school has an associated increased risk of mortality to predation, which selects for schooling behaviour.

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Published
1985-01-12
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Fundulus, Killifish, Perch, Predation, Biology

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