O ne of the most uncanny sights in nature is that of a school of fish, a seething, silvery mass of life thousands strong, darting and diving in perfect coordination. They skim the surface of a ...

And: This habit of swimming next to each other is also characteristic of a large school of fish. The researchers then also marked small sub-groups within a large school.

A school of giant danio swimming in a “water treadmill” that scientists created to study how fish are affected by aquatic turbulence. Credit Credit... Zhang et al., PLOS Biology 2024 ...

Experimental setup. 3D reconstruction of fish trajectories with 3 synchronized cameras. The locations of the fish were determined in each 2D image to calculate the 3D coordinates. The 3D ...