Pike move between two basins of a British lake to maximize their evolutionary fitness. This adaptive behaviour suggests that habitat selection is more significant in population dynamics than was thought.
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Morris, D. Moving to the ideal free home. Nature 443, 645–646 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443645a
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