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swarm
(redirected from Fish school)

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See: assemblage, mass, meet


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Since it is a hallmark of most humans not to stick out from their crowd, a surprisingly large number of behaviors and thought processes in people are defined no differently than they are in the fish school.
While biologists have never, to Couzin's knowledge, studied a fish school in the act of changing from one of the three swarming patterns to another, each of the patterns has been observed frequently in nature.
 
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