Archerfish are well known for their specialized hunting technique of spitting water at prey
located above the water line. This unique ability has made them a popular focus of study as …

Shark-based tourism that uses bait to reliably attract certain species to specific sites so that
divers can view them is a growing industry globally, but remains a controversial issue. We …

Place learning is thought to be an adaptive and flexible facet of navigation. Due to the
flexibility of this learning, it is thought to be more complex than the simpler strategies such as …

Group living in animals is a well-studied phenomenon, having been documented
extensively in a wide range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. Although social …

Animals in social environments can enhance their learning efficiency by observing the
behaviour of others. Our previous study showed that learning efficiency of schooling fish …

As a model organism, zebrafish have much to offer neuroscientific research and they are
increasingly being used in behavioral neuroscience, for example to study the genetics of …

Many kinds of sharks are dangerous and apparently unpredictable predators whose
behavior is virtually unknown. This is because they are difficult both to maintain in captivity …

Marine mammal interactions with fisheries create conflicts that can threaten human safety,
economic interests and marine mammal survival. A deterrent that capitalizes on learning …

Social learning is considered one of the hallmarks of cognition. Observers learn from
demonstrators that a particular behavior pattern leads to a specific consequence or …

Elasmobranchs are an important component of the marine ecosystem that face obvious
anthropogenic threats through habitat degradation and overfishing, but the impact of …