Familiarity facilitates social learning of foraging behaviour in the guppy
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Research into the rate of learning of a food-finding behaviour in 16 shoals of eight guppies, Poecilia reticulata, is presented. It was found that demonstrator-observer familiarity boosted the rate at which guppies learn a foraging task.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies
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The two field experiments with wild guppies, Poecilia reticulata, in Trinidad demonstrated that guppies could acquire foraging and predator escape-response information from conspecifics. The experiments show that guppies can socially learn in the wild.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Shoaling generates social learning of foraging information in guppies
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Results of two studies designed to investigate the social learning of foraging information in guppies show that the foraging of female guppies can be influenced by their more experienced cohorts. In both experiments, untrained female guppies swam with demonstrator fish trained to take specific routes to food. It is concluded that the tendency for guppies to shoal may be a form of guided social learning.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
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