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The team created a 3D model based on the common mackerel to simulate different numbers of fish swimming, changing up their formations, how close they swam to one another, and the degrees to which ...

Fish swimming together fare better in turbulent waters Groups of fish give a schooling to solitary travelers--they expend 79 percent less energy. Laura Baisas Jun 6, 2024 2:00 PM EDT ...

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. Zhang et al., PLOS Biology 2024 ...

Noise reduction grows as more fish join a school, but the team expects the benefits to cap off at some point. "Simply being together and swimming in any manner contributes to reducing the sound ...

The team found that a school of fish moving together in just the right way was stunningly effective at noise reduction: A school of seven fish sounded like a single fish. Swimming in schools makes ...