Fish behavior. 2, Ethophysiology /

Advances in underwater exploration, in situ observation of fish populations, as well as the development of cutting-edge technologies, provide modern insights into behaviors and strategies of fish, whose cognitive abilities have long been underestimated and undervalued. Fish Behavior 2 presents curre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bruslé, Jacques
Otros Autores: Quignard, Jean-Pierre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020.
Temas:
Fishes > Behavior.
Poissons > Mœurs et comportement.
Fishes > Behavior
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Reproductive Behavior: Spawners
  • 1.1. The preparatory phase of pre-spawning: the preliminaries
  • 1.1.1. Selection of sexual partners
  • 1.1.2. Seducers
  • 1.1.3. Courtiers
  • 1.1.4. Reversal of roles
  • 1.1.5. Forbidden love
  • 1.1.6. Spawning aggregations
  • 1.1.7. Practicing polygamy*
  • 1.1.8. Homosexuals
  • 1.1.9. Sexual disabilities
  • 1.1.10. More or less aberrant sexuality
  • 1.2. The phase of realization: couplings and spawning
  • 1.2.1. Alternative mating strategies
  • 1.2.2. Freely consensual couplings
  • 1.2.3. Harassers
  • 1.2.4. Violent couplings
  • 1.2.5. Hybrids
  • 1.2.6. Fleeting loves
  • 1.2.7. Discreet love
  • 1.2.8. Cuckolds and cuckolders
  • 1.2.9. Hermaphrodites
  • 1.2.10. Transsexuals
  • 1.2.11. Unisex populations
  • 1.2.12. Fatherless fish by parthenogenesis
  • 1.2.13. Posthumous paternity
  • 2. Reproductive Behavior: Parents
  • 2.1. The post-spawning phase: the future of the offspring
  • 2.1.1. Nest builders
  • 2.1.2. Incubating clutches in the mouth
  • 2.1.3. Deserters
  • 2.1.4. Gestation
  • 2.2. Parental care
  • 2.2.1. Providing parental care
  • 2.2.2. Having good parents
  • 2.2.3. Larval recruitment
  • 2.2.4. Metamorphoses
  • 2.2.5. Miniaturized fish
  • 3. Remarkable Capabilities
  • 3.1. Aces of ballistics
  • 3.1.1. Stronger than William Tell?
  • 3.1.2. Using a stream of water to hunt
  • 3.2. Possession of a black box
  • 3.2.1. An inviolable personal identity card
  • 3.2.2. Traveling leaves traces, like a real passport
  • 3.2.3. A birth certificate
  • 3.2.4. Proof of diet
  • 3.2.5. Belonging to a stock
  • 3.2.6. Parasites used as biological markers
  • 3.3. Using tools
  • 3.3.1. A form of intelligence from which fish are not excluded
  • 3.3.2. Using an anvil
  • 3.3.3. Capabilities related to the size of their brains?
  • 3.4. Capacity to play
  • 3.4.1. Expression of a certain well-being
  • 3.4.2. A toy in an aquarium
  • 3.5. Artists
  • 3.6. Counting
  • 3.6.1. Quantitative knowledge of their environment
  • 3.6.2. Innate quantitative knowledge which is perfected
  • 3.6.3. Clever fish
  • 3.6.4. Inter-individual variability
  • 3.7. Having a personality
  • 3.7.1. Not all fish are identical
  • 3.7.2. Individual and inter-sexual differences
  • 3.7.3. Customized food preferences
  • 3.7.4. Differences in risk-taking
  • 3.7.5. Personality changes related to age and parental life
  • 3.7.6. Personality traits varying according to environmental factors
  • 3.7.7. Differences in migratory behavior
  • 3.7.8. Personalized mutual relations
  • 3.7.9. Complex motivations
  • 3.7.10. Different brain potential
  • 3.7.11. Higher metabolic potential
  • 3.7.12. Influence of the genome
  • 3.7.13. Early expression of personality
  • 3.7.14. Social influence
  • 3.8. Disguise
  • 3.8.1. Offensive mimicry for feeding

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