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Coordinated Collective
Movement
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Groups of animals can behave almost like a
single organism
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Can execute swift maneuvers
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for predation or to avoid predation
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Individuals rarely collide, even in frenzy of
attack or escape
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Shape is characteristic of species, but
flexible
(SOBS 167, 169, 173)