The use of multiple sources of social information in contest behaviour: testing the social cognitive abilities of a cichlid fish

Theory suggests that living in large social groups with dynamic social interactions often favours the evolution of enhanced cognitive abilities. Studies of how animals assess their own contest ability commonly focus on a single cognitive task, and little is known about the diversity or co-occurrence...

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Principais autores:	Takashi eHotta, Tomohiro eTakeyama, Dik eHeg, Satoshi eAwata, Lyndon Alexander Jordan, Masanori eKohda
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Assuntos:	transitive inference individual recognition eavesdropping Winner and loser effect Julidochromis transcriptus social cognitive ability
Acceso en liña:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00085/full
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