Preferences for familiar fish do not vary with predation risk in the European minnow
In the near‐natural conditions of a fluvarium in the River Frome, U.K., European minnows Phoxinus phoxinus displayed schooling preferences for familiar conspecifics. Schools were composed of 75% familiar fish. The minnows in this river co‐occur with many piscivores, the most notable being the pike E...
| Published in: | Journal of Fish Biology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1997
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01506.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8649.1997.tb01506.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01506.x |
| Summary: | In the near‐natural conditions of a fluvarium in the River Frome, U.K., European minnows Phoxinus phoxinus displayed schooling preferences for familiar conspecifics. Schools were composed of 75% familiar fish. The minnows in this river co‐occur with many piscivores, the most notable being the pike Esox Iucius . The preference for familiar shoalmates was not increased by the threat of predatory attack from a model pike, despite the antipredator benefits afforded to individual members of schools of familiar fish. |
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