Brains over Brawn: Experience overcomes a size disadvantage in fish social hierarchies
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Brains over brawn: experience overcomes a size disadvantage in fish social hierarchies.
Life experiences can alter cognitive abilities and subsequent behavior. Here we asked whether differences in experience could affect social status. In hierarchical animal societies, high-ranking males that typically win aggressive encounters gain territories and hence access to mates. To understand the relative contributions of social experience and physical environment on status, we used a hig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.097527