Fish Fear Robotic Predators, Unless They're Drunk
- Elizabeth Preston for Field of Science August 6th, 2013
- Source: http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/08/fish-fear-robotic-predators-unless.html
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome were interested in zebrafish. These thumb-sized, striped fish are laboratory favorites because their genome is well understood, they reproduce quickly, and their embryos are totally transparent.