Back to school: Can antipredator behaviour in guppies be enhanced through social learning?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 655-662

  Kelley, Jennifer L ^a,b   Evans, Jonathan P ^b   Ramnarine, Indar W ^c   Magurran, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FISH; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CUE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0242432318     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2076     Document Type: Article

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