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Social Fish Will Brave the Cold to Stay with Their Pals

Brian Owens · June 28, 2018 ·

Individuals will compromise on their own temperature preferences to gain the benefits of group life.

You’ve probably experienced it: Your friends want to sit on a restaurant patio and you grudgingly go along even though it is clearly too cold to eat outside. It turns out, some fish know exactly how you feel. They will forego their own preferred temperature to stay with the group. Read more in Inside Science.

Inside Science animal behaviour, fish

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