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The mechanisms that underlie collective behavior in groups of fish have been the subject of numerous quantitative and theoretical studies. We use a robotic platform to investigate social interactions in weakly electric fish by exploiting their unique electro-sensory modality for animal-robot communication. Our results demonstrate that weakly electric fish interact with a mobile dummy fish based on species-specific electrical playback signals and are therefore proposed to be a promising model organism for establishing a mixed-society of real and artificial fish.
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Worm, M., Landgraf, T., Nguyen, H., von der Emde, G. (2014). Electro-communicating Dummy Fish Initiate Group Behavior in the Weakly Electric Fish Mormyrus rume . In: Duff, A., Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Prescott, T.J., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8608. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_57
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