For example, there are reefs in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands where huge aggregations of top predators like Galapagos sharks (Carcharhinus galapagensis) and Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis) appear to represent far greater biomass than the smaller reef fishes and invertebrates these predators feed upon.
But these will often coalesce into huge aggregations.
The strong currents of Palau's Blue Corner provide nutrients to sustain huge aggregations of fish and soft corals.
These include movements like the huge aggregations of American soldiers in the Second World War in which American GIs wore them as dependable casualwear that was reminiscent of back home or counterculture statements by 50's teenagers who were told not to wear them by school authorities (so, duh, got to), or populations wanting to express their solidarity with the protest movements of the 60's.
It supposedly never sees daylight, roosting in huge aggregations in caves during the day and bringing back fruit to the cave at night.
Central place foraging, coupled with huge aggregations of birds at the breeding colonies, likely exerts predation pressure on local prey stocks, and potentially amplifies intra-specific competition at the colonies.
Bats gather in huge, sociable aggregations and have long life spans, circumstances that may be especially hospitable to viruses.
Actually, however, each of these huge spawning aggregations is made up of small, coordinated parties consisting of one female and one or more males.
MS. number: 11-00863R Socialivingng has evolved many times in the animal kingdom and reached all imaginable forms from huge anonymous aggregations to small cohesive groups structured by differentiated relationships.
This challenge has different dimensions including the collection of huge amounts of data, the aggregation of data in various formats, relevance of such data to practical problems and scenarios, analysis of the data to deduce useful information and visualisation, and management of the historic and ever-increasing sets of such data.
