Problems with equating thermal preference with ‘emotional fever’ and sentience: comment on ‘Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish’ by Rey et al. (2015)

Problems with equating thermal preference with ‘emotional fever’ and sentience: comment on ‘Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish’ by Rey

Comment to: Rey S, Huntingford FA, Boltanã S, Vargas R, Knowles TG, Mackenzie S. 2015 Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish. Proc. R. Soc. B 282, 20152266. & 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the origi...

Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish.

Whether fishes are sentient beings remains an unresolved and controversial question. Among characteristics thought to reflect a low level of sentience in fishes is an inability to show stress-induced hyperthermia (SIH), a transient rise in body temperature shown in response to a variety of stressors. This is a real fever response, so is often referred to as 'emotional fever'. It has been sugges...

Stress induced hyperthermia in zebrafish: a reply to Key et al.

A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions in Reducing Emotional Problems in Students with Specific Learning Disorders in the Period of 2009-2018

Due to their mistakes while learning, students with specific learning disorders continually show signs of stress and, compared to normal students, more emotional problems and lower self-confidence. This makes the discovery of the most appropriate forms of psychological interventions aiming to reduce these students' emotional problems even more essential. The present research intends to study th...

Behavioural fever is a synergic signal amplifying the innate immune response

Behavioural fever, defined as an acute change in thermal preference driven by pathogen recognition, has been reported in a variety of invertebrates and ectothermic vertebrates. It has been suggested, but so far not confirmed, that such changes in thermal regime favour the immune response and thus promote survival. Here, we show that zebrafish display behavioural fever that acts to promote exten...