According to a new article on Wired.com, Stefano Marras of the University of Montpellier and Maurizio Porfiri of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, studied the behavior of fish around a robotic "overlord." The researchers found the impostor fish were able to convince the real fish to follow them.

We wonder if this would work with robotic bird overlords...

Read more here, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/fish-mimicking-robot/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29.