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The onset in spring and the end in autumn of the thermal and vegetative growing season affect calving time and reproductive success in reindeer.

Author(s): Paoli A, Weladji RB, Holand Ø, Kumpula J

Curr Zool. 2020 Apr;66(2):123-134 Authors: Paoli A, Weladji RB, Holand Ø, Kumpula J

Article GUID: 32440272
Sender and receiver experience alters the response of fish to disturbance cues.

Author(s): Goldman JA, Feyten LEA, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

Curr Zool. 2020 Jun;66(3):255-261 Authors: Goldman JA, Feyten LEA, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

Article GUID: 32440286
Competition for food in 2 populations of a wild-caught fish.

Author(s): Chuard PJC, Brown GE, Grant JWA

Curr Zool. 2018 Oct;64(5):615-622 Authors: Chuard PJC, Brown GE, Grant JWA

Article GUID: 30323840
Predation risk assessment based on uncertain information: interacting effects of known and unknown cues.

Author(s): Feyten LEA, Demers EEM, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

Curr Zool. 2019 Feb;65(1):75-76 Authors: Feyten LEA, Demers EEM, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE PMID: 30697241 [PubMed]

Article GUID: 30697241
Title:Sender and receiver experience alters the response of fish to disturbance cues.
Authors:Goldman JA,  Feyten LEA,  Ramnarine IW,  Brown GE
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440286?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1093/cz/zoz050
Category:Curr Zool
PMID:32440286
Dept Affiliation: BIOLOGY
1 Department of Biology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada.
2 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Sender and receiver experience alters the response of fish to disturbance cues.

Curr Zool. 2020 Jun;66(3):255-261

Authors: Goldman JA, Feyten LEA, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

Abstract

Predation is a pervasive selection pressure, shaping morphological, physiological, and behavioral phenotypes of prey species. Recent studies have begun to examine how the effects of individual experience with predation risk shapes the use of publicly available risk assessment cues. Here, we investigated the effects of prior predation risk experience on disturbance cue production and use by Trinidadian guppies Poecilia reticulata under laboratory conditions. In our first experiment, we demonstrate that the response of guppies from a high predation population (Lopinot River) was dependent upon the source of disturbance cue senders (high vs. low predation populations). However, guppies collected from a low predation site (Upper Aripo River) exhibited similar responses to disturbance cues, regardless of the sender population. In our second experiment, we used laboratory strain guppies exposed to high versus low background risk conditions. Our results show an analogous response patterns as shown for our first experiment. Guppies exposed to high background risk conditions exhibited stronger responses to the disturbance cues collected from senders exposed to high (vs. low) risk conditions and guppies exposed to low risk conditions were not influenced by sender experience. Combined, our results suggest that experience with background predation risk significantly impacts both the production of and response to disturbance cues in guppies.

PMID: 32440286 [PubMed]