Familiarity in schooling fish: How long does it take to acquire?

Siân W. Griffiths; Anne E. Magurran

doi:10.1006/anbe.1996.0315

Familiarity in schooling fish: How long does it take to acquire?

Siân W. Griffiths^*
, Anne E. Magurran

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Biology

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Abstract

Previous work has demonstrated that fish prefer to school with familiar individuals. In this study schooling preferences for familiar female guppies, Poecilia reticulata, developed gradually over 12 days, but once established were maintained. This contrasts with condition-dependent recognition in which fish rapidly learn to discriminate between conspecifics on the basis of obvious morphological differences such as body size.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	945-949
Number of pages	5
Journal	Animal Behaviour
Volume	53
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1996.0315
Publication status	Published - May 1997

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