The ontogeny of antipredator behavior in paradise fish larvae (Macropodus opercularis) IV. The effect of exposure to siblings

Miklósi, Ádám; Pongrácz, Péter; Csányi, Vilmos

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199705)30:4<283::aid-dev2>3.0.co;2-k

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“…Consequently, ontogenetic shifts in antipredator behaviour have been reported in a variety of species, including jewel fish ( Hemichromis bimaculatus : Cichlidae; Coss 1978), paradise fish (Miklósi et al . 1995, 1997a,b) and largemouth bass (Brown et al . 2001b, 2002).…”

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Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes

Kelley

Magurran²

2003

Fish and Fisheries

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Early research into the causes of geographical variation in antipredator behaviour in fishes revealed that population differences have an underlying genetic basis. However, evidence from a variety of fish species suggests that learning plays an important role in the development of antipredator responses. Here, we consider the opportunities for learning during the three main stages of a predator–prey interaction: detection, recognition and assessment, and attack avoidance. Much of the evidence for learning is based on the recognition and assessment stage of the predator–prey interaction, but this may reflect methodological biases. We also examine the relative roles of different sensory cues, in particular, vision and olfaction, and the importance of individual vs. social learning. We provide evidence that visual predator recognition skills are largely built on unlearned predispositions, whereas olfactory recognition typically involves experience with conspecific alarm cues. Populations display variation in their propensity to learn, and we predict that ecological factors are likely to mediate the balance between individual and social learning.

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Section: Developmental Changes In Learning Abilitymentioning

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“…2001b, 2002). There is good evidence that these ontogenetic changes are phenotypically plastic, depending, for example, on the presence of conspecifics (Coss 1978, 1979; Miklósi et al . 1997b) or chemical cues (Brown et al .…”

Section: Developmental Changes In Learning Abilitymentioning

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Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes

Kelley

Magurran²

2003

Fish and Fisheries

320

236

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“…[16], [17], [18] and dogs and horses are also able to use eye cues when deciding whether to obey a command [19], [20]. The use of attentional cues such as the presence of eyes, or schematic representations of eyespot patterns, evoke anti-predator behaviour in many species and can be present from a very early age [21], [22]. The intensity of an animal's reaction to approaching humans can depend, not just on body orientation but the direction of head and the visibility of eyes [23]–[25].…”

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The Responses of Young Domestic Horses to Human-Given Cues

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It has been suggested that the process of domestication, at least in some species, has led to an innate predisposition to be skilled at reading human communicative and attentional cues. Adult domestic horses (Equus caballus) are highly sensitive to subtle bodily cues when determining if a person is attending to them but they are less adept at using human communicative cues in object choice tasks. Here we provide the first study into the ontogeny of such skills in order to gain insights into the mechanisms underlying these abilities. Compared with adult horses, youngsters under the age of three could use body orientation but not more subtle cues such as head movement and open/closed eyes to correctly choose an attentive person to approach for food. Across two object choice experiments, the performance of young horses was comparable to that of adult horses – subjects were able to correctly choose a rewarded bucket using marker placement, pointing and touching cues but could not use body orientation, gaze, elbow pointing or tapping cues. Taken together these results do not support the theory that horses possess an innate predisposition to be particularly skilled at using human cues. Horses' ability to determine whether humans are attending to them using subtle body cues appears to require significant experience to fully develop and their perhaps less remarkable use of limited cues in object choice tasks, although present at a much earlier age, is likely to reflect a more general learning ability related to stimulus enhancement rather than a specific ‘human-reading’ skill.

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“…Decades of ethological observations have already created a vast literature about paradise fish behavior, defining the paradise fish ethogram under diverse conditions (Csányi, 1993;Miklósi et al, 1995Miklósi et al, , 1997Rácz et al, 2021). Recent methodological advances, such as the adoption of novel, open-source methods for automated video analysis and pose estimation, such as DeepLabCut, DeepPoseKit or PoseR, will enable high-throughput data analysis, introducing new quantification standards into ethology (Graving et al, 2019;Luxem et al, 2023;Mullen et al, 2023;Nath et al, 2019).…”

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The paradise fish, an advanced animal model for behavioral genetics and evolutionary developmental biology

Szabó,

Fodor,

Varga

et al. 2023

J Exp Zool Pt B

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Paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) is an air‐breathing freshwater fish species with a signature labyrinth organ capable of extracting oxygen from the air that helps these fish to survive in hypoxic environments. The appearance of this evolutionary innovation in anabantoids resulted in a rewired circulatory system, but also in the emergence of species‐specific behaviors, such as territorial display, courtship and parental care in the case of the paradise fish. Early zoologists were intrigued by the structure and function of the labyrinth apparatus and a series of detailed descriptive histological studies at the beginning of the 20th century revealed the ontogenesis and function of this specialized system. A few decades later, these fish became the subject of numerous ethological studies, and detailed ethograms of their behavior were constructed. These latter studies also demonstrated a strong genetic component underlying their behavior, but due to lack of adequate molecular tools, the fine genetic dissection of the behavior was not possible at the time. The technological breakthroughs that transformed developmental biology and behavioral genetics in the past decades, however, give us now a unique opportunity to revisit these old questions. Building on the classic descriptive studies, the new methodologies will allow us to follow the development of the labyrinth apparatus at a cellular resolution, reveal the genes involved in this process and also the genetic architecture behind the complex behaviors that we can observe in this species.

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The ontogeny of antipredator behavior in paradise fish larvae (Macropodus opercularis) IV. The effect of exposure to siblings

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes

Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes

The Responses of Young Domestic Horses to Human-Given Cues

The paradise fish, an advanced animal model for behavioral genetics and evolutionary developmental biology

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