Interactions Between Shoal Size and Conformity in Guppy Social Foraging

By R. L. Day, Tom MacDonald, Culum Brown, Kevin N. Laland, Simon M. Reader. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Boldness is influenced by social context in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2007, background): “To the individual group member this can reduce the required minimum investment of time and energy into meeting these costs, allowing them to spend more time engaged in other often non compatible activities, such as searching for and consuming prey (Galef, 1988; Baird et al., 1991; Day et al., 2001; ”
Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population (2014, background): “Thus, there is a strong compulsion for individuals within social groups as fish shoals or bird flocks to remain in close contact and look and behave similarly (conformity effect; Day et al. 2001; Brown and Laland 2002a).”
Pelagic fish assemblages assessed using mid-water baited video: standardising fish counts using bait plume size (2007, background): “…be confounded by the patchy spatial distribution of pelagic fish schools, interactions between school size and foraging and swimming efficiency (Misund & Aglen 1992, Day et al. 2001), and potential association between target species and the research vessel (Dagorn et al. 2001, Meekan & Cappo 2004).”
Male sexual harassment and female schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish (2005, unknown): “It is well known that female poeciliids adjust their schooling behaviour according to various ecological and social factors (e.g. Griffiths & Magurran 1997, 1998; Lachlan et al. 1998; Day et al. 2001; Evans et al. 2002; tudy of Animal Behaviour.”
The role of conformity in foraging when personal and social information conflict (2004, background): “It is now well established that the use of social information can enhance foraging efficiency in shoaling fish (Day et al., 2001; Laland and Williams, 1997, 1998; Pitcher and House, 1987; Ryer and Olla, 1992).”
Documented and Potential Biological Impacts of Recreational Fishing: Insights for Management and Conservation (2006, background): “After reaching such a threshold, group dynamics and cooperative interactions might be impaired, which compromise mating success ( McCarthy, 1997 ), foraging ( Day et al, 2001 ), or antipredator strategies ( Rangeley and Kramer, 1998 ).”
Foraging nine-spined sticklebacks prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues (2005, background): “However, while alleviating individuals from themselves incurring the cost of sampling, social learning could, at least in theory, also potentially transmit suboptimal foraging information, leading to shortterm maladaptive traditions (Day et al., 2001; Giraldeau et al., 2002; Laland and Williams, 199”
Less is more: social learning of predator recognition requires a low demonstrator to observer ratio in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) (2004, background): “However, interpretation of these empirical results may be ambiguous, because in all of them increasing demonstrator number was coupled with an increase of the total group size, which alone may enhance social learning (e.g. Pitcher et al. 1982; Day et al. 2001).”
Social Learning of a Novel Avoidance Task in the Guppy: Conformity and Social Release (2002, background): “Studies investigating social foraging in guppies suggest that conformity can hinder learning of a novel food-finding behaviour (Day et al. 2001).”
‘Conformity’ in Norway rats? (2008, background): “In a recent paper, Whiten & van Schaik (2007) suggested that although a tendency to conform to the behaviour of others is widespread in animals (Day et al. 2001; Kendal et al. 2004), the motivation to copy others is particularly strong in chimpanzees and humans, and, in these species alone, supersed”
Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies (2003, background): “There is good evidence from laboratory experiments that domesticated strains of guppy can learn foraging locations, foraging routes and predator escape routes from conspecifics (Sugita 1980; Laland & Williams 1997, 1998; Lachlan et al. 1998; Reader & Laland 2000; Day et al. 2001; Brown & Laland 2002”