A bait ball, or baitball, occurs when small fish swarm in a tightly packed spherical formation about a common centre. It is a last-ditch defensive measure...

Bait fish (or baitfish) are small-sized fish caught and used by anglers as bait to attract larger predatory fish, particularly game fish. Baitfish species...

Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, customers are "baited" by merchants' advertising products...

line and buried inside a bait ball, which can be swallowed easily by the fish. Once inside the fish's mouth, the bait ball often softens and gets fragmented...

whales lunge feed on bait balls. Lunge feeding is an extreme feeding method, in which the whale accelerates from below a bait ball to a high velocity and...

northwards in summer and south in winter. They form large schools, and may form bait balls when threatened (see image, below). European anchovies are eaten by...

herring into a tight bait ball. Different predatory species then use different techniques to pick the fish off in the bait ball. The sailfish raises its...

industry, as large music companies acquired smaller music companies. Bait ball Adage Comprehension of idioms Idiom in English language Media feeding...

derogatively as "meatballs" MeatballWiki, a wiki dedicated to online culture Bait ball Metaballs All pages with titles beginning with Meatball All pages with...

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