Social Learning of a Novel Avoidance Task in the Guppy: Conformity and Social Release

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Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies (2003, background): “Unlike Brown & Laland (2002), the observers in our study maintained a preference for the demonstrated route after the demonstrators had been removed, escaping through this route more rapidly than the alternative route.”
Less is more: social learning of predator recognition requires a low demonstrator to observer ratio in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) (2004, background): “For convenience, the level of behavior in the control group is marked also with a dashed line. and Giraldeau 1994; Giraldeau 1997) and the conformist hypothesis (Laland and Williams 1997; Brown and Laland 2002).”
Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population (2014, background): “Negative social reinforcement has also been shown in foraging contexts in fishes (Brown and Laland 2002b).”