I’ve wondered this for a long time, and it’s so neat to finally understand a little about it, and humbling to see we still don’t quite know how these fish move so harmoniously.
Very interesting hypotheses and stellar photography continue to clutch my attention and interest in your work. Bravo! Btw I'm always amazed that research scientist pursue and investigate complex and puzzling topics whose secrets of origin can only come from natures grand architect. It's structure relies on Gods obvious supperior and sensitive intelligence. Mother nature after all is his best friend and where would she be without his exquisite interconnected genius of balance? Things that 'seem' to make no sense initially to us make total sense to God. It just takes a few centuries for us to catch up to the overwhelming reality of it's importance.
"whose secrets can only come from nature's grand architect", just say you're an idiot and leave. there's no room for hare-brained religious morons who actually think that a magic man is the reason for existence.
There is not yet a good explanation of how so many fish instantaneously reacts to another's movement. What causes the group of fish to turn right or left or retreat. Dependence on nerve conduction travelling from eyes to brain then back to muscle is not possible as nerve conduction speed is too slow- please explain!
Many thanks for this beautiful video, which I believe may be inspiring for the audience much broroader than the people interested in animal behaviour. Surprisingly perhaps, I believe these studies will prove illuminating for physiologists and molecular biologists too. Even the title of your video sounds like a pun. There is a widespread and misleading representation in modern biology of DNA as a blueprint of an organism. A blueprint is a general view of a complex structure and to my knowledge there is nothing like it in any genome. What genomes describe are rules of conduct of individual cells. Cells are too stupid to know they build a lung or a liver or a man. They just care about themselves and sometimes their neighbour. They behave automatically like the sheep or birds in the flocks you showed. Individual animals have no idea of geometry or predator psychology, still they form those impressive dynamic structures. I suppose the behaviour of individual cells in plant or animal bodies resembles the behaviour of individual sheep or birds in a flock. The cells read simple cheatsheets, not the service manuals.
