Habituation of Predator Inspection and Boldness in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
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--This study examined habituation of the predator inspection behavior in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and its relationship with boldness (open field locomotion). Two different strategies were discovered: (1) initial inspection of a predatorlike fish, correlated with boldness; (2) subsequent surveillance, governed by a random underlying process and unrelated with boldness. The surveillance inspection is probably linked with anti-predator vigilance. Possible implications to betweenpopulation variation in inspection behavior are discussed. This paper was published as: Budaev, S.V. and Zworykin, D.D. (2003). Habituation of predator inspection and boldness in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata), Journal of Ichthyology, vol. 43, Supplement 2, S243-S247. 1 Current address: Centre for Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton. BN1 9QG, UK; E-mail: [email protected]
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