When the fish stop biting, ice fishers follow the crowd

Personal knowledge drives foraging decisions. But in tough times, sticking with the group helps

Ice fishers in Finland are helping researchers understand how people forage.

Researchers hosted ice fishing competitions across Finland to observe how participants fitted with head-mounted cameras and GPS devices selected, and left, spots — a proxy for foraging behavior in the wild.

Petri T. Niemelä

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