Experiments on whether schooling by their prey affects the hunting behaviour of cephalopods and fish predators

By S. Neill, J. M. Cullen. 2009

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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In Ecology

1. W. L. Romey
2. Lesley J. Morrell

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Lesley J. Morrell

In Social Psychology

1. Lesley J. Morrell

Citations in the corpus

• Aerial flocking patterns of wintering starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, under different predation risk (2009, unknown): “The ‘confusion’ effect, that is, disorientation of a predator by a large group of prey (Neil & Cullen 1974), and the ‘selfish herd’ theory (Hamilton 1971), according to which individuals use their flockmates as a shield, led us to predict that higher predation pressure would be reflected in more…”
• Optimal individual positions within animal groups (2008, background): “Predators may more successfully track individuals at the edge of groups due to 23 the confusion effect (Neill and Cullen 1974), explaining why in some systems only 24”