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The great escape -- fleeing fish fall in line

With the unappealing prospect of being eaten, one might imagine that during a predator attack it is a case that all fish escape at once in the desperate hurry to escape as quickly as possible. However, new research carried out at the International Marine Centre in Sardinia, Italy, indicates that this is not the case, and in fact fish in schools escape using a relatively fixed chronological order.

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