Better and faster collective decisions by larger fish shoals in the wild
Korbinian Pacher, David Bierbach, Yunus Sevinchan, Carla Vollmoeller, Alejandro Juarez-Lopez, Jesús Emmanuel Jiménez-Jiménez, Stefan Krause, Max Wolf, Paweł Romańczuk, Lenin Arias‐Rodríguez, Jens Krause
The paper shows larger fish shoals in the wild better detect predator attacks while maintaining constant false alarms and faster decision times.
Science Advances · Jul 30, 2025Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition