article_snippet.sent: they are one of the most feared animals on the planet.
article_snippet.sent: Flocks of small birds will react the same way to hawks.'
article_snippet.sent: The ‘predator confusion effect’ is based on the idea that it becomes difficult for predators to pick out individual prey from groups because similar-looking fish create a sensory overload for predators.
article_snippet.sent: They want to avoid being eaten!
article_snippet.sent: It was certainly not what I would describe as a feeding frenzy at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Proposed in 1978, the ‘predator confusion effect’ is based on the idea that it becomes difficult for predators to pick out individual prey from groups because the many moving targets create a sensory overload of the predator's visual channel –
article_snippet.sent: a theory that’s been proved in the wild and in computer simulations.
highlights_snippet.sent: They distance, perhaps proving They are scared .
  