The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey

@article{Handegard2012TheDO,
  title={The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey},
  author={Nils Olav Handegard and Kevin Mershon Boswell and Christos C. Ioannou and Simon Leblanc and Dag B. Tj{\o}stheim and Iain D. Couzin},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2012},
  volume={22},
  pages={1213-1217}
}
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