Learning about Danger: Chemical Alarm Cues and Threat-Sensitive Assessment of Predation Risk by Fishes

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-80

  Brown, Grant E ^a   Ferrari, Maud C O ^b   Chivers, Douglas P ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approach to threat sensitive behavioural decision models local predation threats in real time; Chemically mediated learning prey, to fine tune predator recognition; Chivers Smith, importance of experience responses of fathead minnows to pike cues; Concentration of predator odour detected, conditioning events, threat of predator; Ferrari et al., and predator recognition continuum hypothesis recognising novel predators; Impairment of alarm cue detection and function prey exposed to sublethal anthropogenic pollutants; Learning about danger, chemical alarm cues threat sensitive assessment of predation risk, by fishes; Prey fishes, conditioned to recognise predators based on single learning event; Threat sensitive assessment of predation risk predation, variable in space and time; Variable predation risk prey fishes, adjustments in intensity of antipredator response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948974609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444342536.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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