Ventilatory frequency indicates visual recognition of an allopatric predator in naïve Nile tilapia

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-239

  Barreto, Rodrigo Egydio ^a   Luchiari, Ana Carolina ^a   Marcondes, Ana Lucia ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fish; Nile tilapia; Predator recognition; Ventilatory frequency

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; RESPIRATION;

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TILAPIA; VISUAL MEMORY;

OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0037473784     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00127-4     Document Type: Article

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