Email this article The Behavior of Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus, with Novel Food in Individual and Social Conditions
- Authors: Zworykin D.D.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Issue: Vol 58, No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 260-264
- Section: Short Communications
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/0032-9452/article/view/167690
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945218020169
- ID: 167690
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Abstract
Results of investigation of how social context affects responses to, and consumption of the novel food in climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, are presented. The fish living in group fed better from the first day of the experiment. The quantity of consumed pellets always exceeded that in solitary specimens. Their rate of habituation to the novel food was always significantly higher.
About the authors
D. D. Zworykin
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Author for correspondence.
Email: d.zworykin@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 199071
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