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Ballistic Beloniformes attacking through Snell's Window

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Fish Biology, October 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Title
Ballistic Beloniformes attacking through Snell's Window
Published in
Journal of Fish Biology, October 2015
DOI 10.1111/jfb.12799
Pubmed ID
Authors

R D Day, F Mueller, L Carseldine, N Meyers-Cherry, I R Tibbetts

Abstract

Needlefishes (Beloniformes) were observed employing a range of stalking and attacking behaviours to attack schools of bait fishes ranging from the use of tactics common to predatory fishes to a novel behaviour: the use of leaping, aerial attacks. These aerial attacks are suggested to serve two purposes: to extend the attack range of the needlefishes and to reduce their prey's potential for evasion. Furthermore, a third purpose is hypothesized that the needlefishes are taking advantage of Snell's Window, an optical effect which may mask their approach to their prey.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 4%
Unknown 26 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Professor 3 11%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 44%
Environmental Science 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Engineering 2 7%
Linguistics 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 4 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2022.
All research outputs
#1,352,463
of 25,083,571 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Fish Biology
#175
of 5,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,996
of 290,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Fish Biology
#3
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,083,571 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,036 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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