Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10971093 Animal Behaviour 2013 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Animals might form groups to avoid predators or to escape from them. ► Threespine sticklebacks previously exposed to predator cues schooled more. ► Immediate exposure to simulated predation risk did not influence schooling behaviour. ► These results imply that the function of schooling in sticklebacks is to avoid predators.
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Avoidance or escape? Discriminating between two hypotheses for the function of schooling in threespine sticklebacks
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