Association patterns and foraging behaviour in natural and artificial guppy shoals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 855-864

  Morrell, Lesley J ^a   Croft, Darren P ^a,b   Dyer, John R G ^a   Chapman, Ben B ^a   Kelley, Jennifer L ^c   Laland, Kevin N ^d   Krause, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

guppy; information; innovation; Poecilia reticulata; shoaling tendency; social learning

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 49149106625     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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