Fish Cognition and Behavior is an important contribution to all fish biologists and ethologists and contains much information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel.
Includes:
- Foraging skills
- Predator recognition
- Social organization and learning
- Welfare and pain
Contents
Learning of Foraging Skills by Fish
- Some Factors Affecting the Learning Process
- Patch Use and Probability Matching
- Performance
- Tracking Environmental Variation
- Competition
- Learning and Fish Feeding: Some Applications
Learned Defenses and Counter Defenses in Predator-Prey Interactions
- The Predator-Prey Sequence
- Avoidance
- Detection
- Recognition
- Approach
Learning About Danger: Chemical Alarm Cues and the Assessment of Predation Risk By Fishes
- Chemical Alarm Cues and Flexible Responses
- Temporal Variability and the Intensity of Antipredator Behaviour
- Predator Diet Cues and Risk Assessment During Predator Inspection
- Acquired Predator Recognition
- Constraints on Learning
- Heterospecific Responses
Learning & Mate Choice
- Sexual Imprinting
- Learning After Reaching Maturity
- Eavesdropping
- Mate-Choice Copying
- Social Mate Preferences Overriding Genetic Preferences
- Cultural Evolution Through Mate-Choice Copying
- Does Mate-Choice Copying Support the Evolution of a Novel Male Trait?
- Is Mate-Choice Copying an Adaptive Mate-choice Strategy?
- Outlook
Modulating Aggression Through Experience
- Winner and Loser Effects in Fishes
- Mechanisms of Experience Effects
- Other Types of Experience
- Integrating Experience Information
- Conclusions and Future Directions
The Role of Learning in Fish Orientation
- Why Keep Track of Location?
- The Use of Learning and Memory in Orientation
- Learning About Landmarks
- Compass Orientation
- Water Movements
- Inertial Guidelines and Internal 'Clocks'
- Social Cues
- How Flexible is Orientation Behaviour?
- Salmons Homing—A Case Study
Learned Recognition of Conspecifics
- Recognition of Familiars and Condition-Dependency
- Familiarity or Kin Recognition?
Social Organization and Information Transfer in Schooling Fish
- Integrated Collective Motion
- Collective Motion in the Absence of External Stimuli
- Response to Internal State and External Stimuli: Information Processing Within Schools
- Information Status, Leadership and Collective Decision-Making in Fish Schools
- The Structure of Fish Schools and Populations
- Social Networks and Individual Identities
- Community Structure in Social Networks
- Conclusions and Future Directions
Social Learning in Fishes
- Anti-Predator Behaviour
- Migration and Orientation
- Foraging
- Mate Choice
- Aggression
- Trade-offs in Reliance on Social and Asocial Sources of Information Among Fishes
Cooperation and Cognition in Fishes
- Why Study Cooperation in Fishes?
Machiavallian Intelligence in Fishes
- Cognitive Abilities of Fishes that Form the Basis for Machiavellian Intelligence
Neural Mechanisms of Learning in Teleost Fish
- Pioneering Studies
- Classical Conditioning
- Emotional Conditioning
- Spatial Cognition
The Role of Fish Learning Skills in Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Fisheries
- Aquaculture
- Stock Enhancement and Sea-Ranching
Index
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