Predator model recognition and response habituation in shoaling minnows

@article{Magurran1986PredatorMR,
  title={Predator model recognition and response habituation in shoaling minnows},
  author={Anne E. Magurran and Sarah L. Girling},
  journal={Animal Behaviour},
  year={1986},
  volume={34},
  pages={510-518}
}
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142 Citations

Individual Behavioural Strategies Associated with Predator Inspection in Minnow Shoals
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When confronted with a live pike, Esox lucius, European minnows, Phoxinus phoxinus, showing individual differences in rate of predator inspection, fish with high inspection rates were bolder, skittered more frequently and fed more persistently than fish with low inspection rates.
Dicing with death: predator inspection behaviour in minnow shoals
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Individual minnows which have carried out an inspection visit to the predator model exhibit changes in behaviour on return which are contingent upon the state of the model, demonstrating that information is gained.
Predator inspection behaviour in minnow shoals: differences between populations and individuals
  • A. Magurran
  • Environmental Science
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • 2004
TLDR
Individual differences in inspection found within the two populations suggest that selfish behaviour was present in minnows sympatric with pike.
Habituation of Predator Inspection and Boldness in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
This study examined habituation of the predator inspection behavior in the guppy ( Poecilia reticu- lata ) and its relationship with boldness (open field locomotion). Two different strategies were…
Functions of Shoaling Behaviour in Teleosts
Predators and food are the keys to understanding fish shoals; synchronised co-operation defeats predators, and optimal food gathering in shoals reflects a shifting balance between joining, competing…
Species segregation during predator evasion in cyprinid fish shoals
TLDR
Behaviour which sorted fish into species at the onset of predator attack was revealed, and the value to the individual of segregative behaviour in response to predator threat is discussed.
The inheritance and development of minnow anti-predator behaviour
Provenance, shoal size and the sociobiology of predator-evasion behaviour in minnow shoals
  • A. Magurran, T. Pitcher
  • Environmental Science
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences
  • 1987
TLDR
Mnows from provenances with and without pike exhibited a similar repertoire of antipredator behaviour patterns, but those sympatric with the predator integrated their tactics more effectively and regained pre-exposure behaviour sooner after each encounter.
Preferences for familiar fish do not vary with predation risk in the European minnow
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In the near-natural conditions of a fluvarium in the River Frome, U.K., European minnows Phoxinus phoxinus displayed schooling preferences for familiar conspecifics, despite the antipredator benefits afforded to individual members of schools of familiar fish.
Predator inspection behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, local predation pressure and cooperation
TLDR
It is confirmed that levels of predator inspection are both population- and situation-dependent, suggesting a trade-off in the potential costs and benefits of this behaviour.
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