Information Transfer across Fish Shoals under Predator Threat

Volume: 78, Issue: 2, Pages: 153 - 158
Published: Apr 26, 2010
Abstract
The hypothesis that shoaling fish can obtain information about a predator's approach from changes in the behaviour of other shoal members was tested in an experiment in which receiver minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) behind a one-way-mirror could observe the reaction of transmitter minnows threatened by the stalk of a pike (Esox lucius) model. Although the receiver minnows were out of visual contact with the pike model they decreased their foraging...
Paper Details
Title
Information Transfer across Fish Shoals under Predator Threat
Published Date
Apr 26, 2010
Journal
Volume
78
Issue
2
Pages
153 - 158
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