Sentence examples for two shoals from inspiring English sources

One moment biophysicist Matthew Turner was explaining that it's theoretically possible to make a computer using two shoals of fish, the next economist Robert Akerlof extolled the merits of anger as a tool for financial regulation.

Similarly, his new band (keyboard and auxiliary guitar player Chris Michaels, bassist and backing vocalist Paula Jean Brown and drummer Johnny Hott, whose five-year-old watches sleepily from the wings) swap between Linkous's two shoals of songs.

Single fish placed in an unknown environment show a strong tendency to join social companions and, if choosing between two shoals, they exhibit a preference for the larger one, an adaptive strategy that allows them to minimize the risks of predation [37], [38].

Ten shoals of six female fish were used in the flow action trial, and 13 shoals used in the static condition trial.

First we analysed the correlation between our three shoaling parameters (shoal size, average distance between nearest neighbours and the duration shoaling) separately for male and females guppies.

The conventional method to investigate the shoal mate choice is to observe the spontaneous preference between two potential shoal mates using a side-by-side presentation.

Divers searched the Six Fathom Shoal after the wreck occurred and found no evidence of "a recent collision or grounding anywhere".

They found that the Canadian 1973 navigational chart for the Six Fathom Shoal area was based on Canadian surveys from 1916 and 1919 and that the 1973 U.S. Lake Survey Chart No. 9 included the notation, "Canadian Areas.

The NTSB investigation concluded that at the time of the Fitzgerald foundering, Lake Survey Chart No. 9 was not detailed enough to indicate Six Fathom Shoal as a hazard to navigation.

Conjecture by proponents of the Six Fathom Shoal theory concluded that the Fitzgerald's downed fence rail reported by McSorley could occur only if the ship "hogged" during shoaling, with the bow and stern bent downward and the midsection raised by the shoal, pulling the railing tight until the cables dislodged or tore under the strain.

In one experiment, the minnows had to decide between two groups, or shoals, of fellow minnows; one was visible only to the left eye, and another visible only by the right.