Remember following bold (drunk) friends when you were in college? Now we know it wasn't your fault, the same thing happens to fish so it's probably hard-wired into your brain. A new study found that drunk fish swam faster and more erratically, and sober fish followed them. “It is like [that the fish's drunk behavior] is perceived as a boldness trait, thus imparting a high social status,” lead researcher Maurizio Porfiri, an associate professor at New York University Polytechnic Institute of Engineering, told Discover Magazine.And I thought people followed me just because I was such a natural leader.
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