Flow-tank experiments and fluid-dynamics simulations refute the idea that water movements over the body of boxfishes are a stabilizing influence, instead showing that the fish's shape amplifies destabilizing forces to improve manoeuvrability.
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Farina, S., Summers, A. Boxed up and ready to go. Nature 517, 274–275 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/517274a
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