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Striking visualization of the flows generated by starfish larvae in their fluid environment offers unique insight into how these organisms live. The beautiful vortices they create betray a dynamic mechanism for trading swimming off against feeding.

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  1. Vicente I. Fernandez and Roman Stocker are at the Institute for Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ,

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Fernandez, V., Stocker, R. Modus vivendi. Nature Phys 13, 326–327 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4004

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