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hay rick

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6. I witnessed a baitball from a bridge in New Jersey.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 17, 2017, 11:29 PM

Nov 2017

The school of baitfish was being attacked by blues. The blues would dive in and grab a fish and the whole ball would quiver and then reform. And then it would happen again and again. For the predators it was about as challenging as picking an apple off a tree. I supposed that the opportunity to breed as a survivor in the school trumped the instinct to flee and risk surviving as an isolated individual without reproductive options.

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