Familiarity in schooling fish: how long does it take to acquire?

Griffiths, Siân W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6348-7352 and Magurran, Anne E. 1997. Familiarity in schooling fish: how long does it take to acquire? Animal Behaviour 53 (5) , pp. 945-949. 10.1006/anbe.1996.0315

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Abstract

Previous work has demonstrated that fish prefer to school with familiar individuals. In this study schooling preferences for familiar female guppies,Poecilia reticulata, developed gradually over 12 days, but once established were maintained. This contrasts with condition-dependent recognition in which fish rapidly learn to discriminate between conspecifics on the basis of obvious morphological differences such as body size.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Biosciences
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0003-3472
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2025 12:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183004

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