Why Do Fish School?

Published July 30th, 2019 by Meigan Henry, Grant Callegari, and Tavish Campbell


A swirling mass of fish swim past, as if a single organism was gracefully moving through the water. Who gets to be in the middle? How do they not bump into each other? And why are they schooling in the first place?

Find out this and so much more in this Hakai video!