Tracking Schooling Fish in Three Dimensions

Experiments at the Rotterdam Zoo

Doctoral thesis (2023)

Authors

K. Muller Fluid Mechanics - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Research Group
Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 K. Muller
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https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:12905cc1-b9e7-4bff-972d-19bea5cf4fdf
Schooling Fish Three-Dimensional Tracking Collective Behavior Animal Locomotion Biological Fluid-Dynamics Field Experiments
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Process and Energy

Research Group

Fluid Mechanics

Abstract

This thesis describes methods and first analyses to study the shape and motion of a large school of approximately 2000 Harengula clupeola (false herring) in three-dimensional space. This school of fish was present at the large-scale and publicly accessible ocean aquarium of the Rotterdam zoo, in the Netherlands known as Diergaarde Blijdorp, from spring 2017 to summer 2020.