AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -schooling behaviour, Activity characteristic of clupeiform fish (herrings, anchovies, and allies) in which many fish swim together, appearing to act as a single organism. A school of herring may contain many millions of individuals of roughly similar size.

Detailed explanation-2: -School. A school is a group of fish swimming in a synchronizing and polarized way. The individuals of this group adopt a schooling behavior (Pitcher, 1983). Schooling behaviors are characterized by the tendency to polarize, with individuals adopting the same orientation and swimming in the same direction.

Detailed explanation-3: -In captivity, schooling fish need to have at least four to six to create a comfortable school. The adage, the more the merrier, definitely applies to schools of fish. In other words, you can’t have too many fish in a school.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most common collective nouns for a group of fish in general are school and shoal. Both the words have evolved from the same common Dutch root ‘schole’ meaning a troop or crowd.

Detailed explanation-5: -A group of fish is called ‘school’. Similarly, A group of wolves is called a ‘pack’. Hence, “Wolf : Pack” is analogous with the given pair.