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    Science. 1983 Apr 22;220(4595):433-435.

    Behavior of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba: Chemoreception, Feeding, Schooling, and Molting.

    Hamner WM, Hamner PP, Strand SW, Gilmer RW.

    Krill do not feed by passive, continuous filtration but use area-intensive searching and various rapid feeding behaviors to exploit local high food concentrations. Chemicals alone at low concentrations, not particles, trigger feeding. Krill form dense schools that move rapidly and migrate primarily horizontally. Abrupt disruption of a school can trigger mass molting, and molts may act as decoys.

    PMID: 17831417 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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