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Relationship between the position preference and nutritional state of individuals in schools of juvenile roach (Rutilus rutilus) | Semantic Scholar

@article{Krause1992RelationshipBT,
  title={Relationship between the position preference and nutritional state of individuals in schools of juvenile roach (Rutilus rutilus)},
  author={Jens Krause and Dirk Bumann and Dietmar Todt},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={1992},
  volume={30},
  pages={177-180},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32061496}
}

These results represent the first evidence for a relationship between the nutritional state of individual fish and their positions in a school and suggest a functional advantage of the preference.

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Hydrodynamical effects appear to be important to obligate schooling species, and the endurance of the fish is found to be increased twice to six times when in schools.