Subordinate Fish Mediate Aggressiveness Using Recent Contest Information

Subordinate Fish Mediate Aggressiveness Using Recent Contest Information

Memorizing dominance relationships can help animals avoid unwinnable subsequent contests. However, when competitive ability changes over time—for example, as a function of condition—it may be adaptive to “forget” these dominance relationships and for subordinates to once again enter contests with pr...

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Main Authors: Takashi Hotta, Satoshi Awata, Lyndon A. Jordan, Masanori Kohda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
adaptive forgetting theory
cichlid
contest duration
Julidochromis transcriptus
memory
self-assessment
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.685907/full

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