Hastiness, brain size and predation regime affect the performance of wild guppies in a spatial memory task

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 911-922

  Burns, James G ^a   Rodd, F Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

guppies; hastiness; Poecilia reticulata; predation; spatial memory; telencephalon size

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDATION RISK; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 49149084684     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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