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A School is a Type of Shoal, by Isaac Yuen | wildness

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The very model of a modern Sergeant Major (damselfish) is one that sports five stripes narrowing toward the belly and can fall into perfect formation. To shoal is to sense together, make matters animal, vegetal, and mineral simpler to assess. This is useful when frequenting craggy reefs with ill-tempered denizens, many of whom are keen to nibble on anything animalculous while avoiding being nibbled upon in return. Sergeant Majors proficient at synchronized swimming can potentially graduate to schooling, which is technically a technical form of shoaling. While to shoal is to be social, which pe

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