The marine environment is filled with biotic and abiotic sounds. Some of these sounds
predict important events that influence fitness while others are unimportant. Individuals can …

Cognitive abilities of sharks are well developed and comparable to teleosts and other
vertebrates. Most studies exploring elasmobranch cognitive abilities have used visual …

Sharks (elasmobranchs) are an ancient, diverse group of fishes, representing a basal stage
in the evolution of vertebrate hearing. Yet, our understanding of behavioural measures of …

Highlights•We tested whether sharks habituate to olfactory cues.•Shark response to olfactory
cues decreased over time.•Sharks showed both short-and long-term habituation.• …

The effect of sound on the behaviour of sharks has not been investigated since the 1970s.
Sound is, however, an important sensory stimulus underwater, as it can spread in all …

The development of adaptive responses to novel situations via learning has been
demonstrated in a wide variety of animal taxa. However, knowledge on the learning abilities …

Sensory systems play a central role in guiding animal behaviour. They can be manipulated
to alter behavioural outcomes to limit negative interactions between humans and animals …

Basic understanding of the fundamental principles and mechanisms involved in learning is
lacking for elasmobranch fishes. Our aim in this study was to experimentally investigate the …

Three instrumental conditioning experiments were performed on four juvenile nurse sharks,
Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre). In these, one shark rapidly learned to strike a target …

The role of learning in behaviour is well known for many animal taxa, including teleost
fishes, insects, birds and mammals. However, its importance to sharks in everyday …