Coral reef fish rapidly learn to identify multiple unknown predators upon recruitment to the reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mitchell, Matthew D ^a   McCormick, Mark I ^a   Ferrari, Maud C O ^b   Chivers, Douglas P ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; FISH; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURVIVAL; AGING; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANTHOZOA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; LEARNING; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79251544545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015764     Document Type: Article

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