Ocean group behavior study gets a school of striped fish on the wall

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorResearchers say ocean animals, from plankton to whales, travel in groups because of food, fear and basic physics, and the paper is out tonight from Phys.org.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFear is the big one. We've got file footage here, pulled from the archive—not actual footage from the study, but check it out.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYellow and white stripes, all swimming left together. Fine, it's tidy.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWatch the coral here. The school splits around the rock and just rejoins, nobody even argues about it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRun it back. I need to see the split again.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd here comes a diver's hand from the right.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's the fear part of the study. Viral Score, eight out of ten, minus two for the hand.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRex, I assume your team also moves as one, in panic.

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