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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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Figure 1: Boxfish instability.

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  1. Stacy C. Farina is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,

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  2. Adam P. Summers is at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, Washington 98250, USA.,

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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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