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Fish School

by Mark Plimsoll

          Ha ha. Books say fish school because of = Predator pressure, increased ability to locate patchy food, conservation of energy (heat generated), creation of currents that facilitate locomotion, increased likelihood of finding mates.
        Generate heat in water? Give me a break.
        Any currents would push BACKWARDS against the rest!
        Find a mate? Females squirt out eggs and males squirt out sperm, that's called finding a mate?
        And if the schooling only happens to juveniles?
        And when males build nests to attract females, so the school!!???
        What a load of armchair bull. Fish most likely school because of electro-receptor lines along their flanks that enable them to swim together and instantaneously maintain "formation" - it feels good to them; evolution "selected" that method of "safety in numbers."
       

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