Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

'Social competence'refers to the ability of an individual to optimise its social behaviour
depending on available social information. Although such ability will enhance social …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Experience in aggressive contests often affects behaviour during, and the outcome of, later
contests. This review discusses evidence for, variations in, and consequences of such …

The acquisition and use of socially acquired information is commonly assumed to be
profitable. We challenge this assumption by exploring hypothetical scenarios where the use …

Animals acquire skills and knowledge from other animals, and fish are no exception. There
is now strong experimental evidence that many species of fish exhibit social learning and …

Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority
access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance …

Transitive inference (TI) involves using known relationships to deduce unknown ones (for
example, using A> B and B> C to infer A> C), and is thus essential to logical reasoning. First …

In contrast to other major forms of livestock agriculture, there is a paucity of scientific
information on the welfare of fish raised under intensive aquacultural conditions. This …

Linear hierarchies, the classical pecking-order structures, are formed readily in both nature
and the laboratory in a great range of species including humans. However, the probability of …