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Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today, talking about a new study in FISH, looking at what pressures prey fish to school, zebras to herd, crows to murder (ok, maybe not the crows). It turns out, it's predator pressure that predicts how prey will associate, and that the lowest risk model shows that when predators are cool, fish will school. Head over and check it out!