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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-29
pubmed:abstractText
We investigated turning responses in 16 species of fish faced with a vertical-bar barrier through which a learned dummy predator was visible. Ten of these species showed a consistent lateral bias to turn preferentially to the right or to the left. Species belonging to the same family showed similar directions of lateral biases. We performed an independent test of shoaling tendency and found that all gregarious species showed population lateralisation, whereas only 40% of the non-gregarious species did so. The results provide some support to the Rogers (1989) hypothesis that population lateralisation might have been developed in relation to the need to maintain coordination among individuals in behaviours associated with social life.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1357-650X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
269-84
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Population lateralisation and social behaviour: a study with 16 species of fish.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento de Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Italy. bisazza@psico.unipd.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article