Are Fish Friendly?

Question: Do fish like to swim in groups or do they prefer to swim alone?

Hypothesis: Fish will swim in groups. 

Procedure: Data was collected by observing fish in their natural habitat. The natural habitat of the fish was found by using the Smithsonian National Zoological Park Amazon River cam. The number of fish were counted by the researcher every five minutes for thirty minutes total. Then the researcher took the data and entered it into Microsoft Excel.

Results:

Discussion: As seen in the graph, fish tend to swim in groups. The number of fish in each group varied, but a fish was never seen to be swimming alone.

Photographs documenting Research:

Website to collect data:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/default.cfm?cam=amazonia

Image 1: Amazon River cam used to observe the fish.

Image 2: Data collected from observation research.

Conclusion: Researcher found that fish tend to swim in groups! Based on this data, the next question for future research would be. Do fish tend to only swim in groups of their own species? My hypothesis is yes, fish tend to swim in groups of only their own species. Do fish that are alone searching for there own species? My hypothesis is yes, they would be swimming to find their own species.