Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition

C Brown, V Schluessel - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Abstract 450 million years of evolution have given chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and allies)
ample time to adapt perfectly to their respective everyday life challenges and cognitive …

Magnetoreception and magnetic navigation in fishes: a half century of discovery

LC Naisbett-Jones, KJ Lohmann - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2022 - Springer
As the largest and most diverse vertebrate group on the planet, fishes have evolved an
impressive array of sensory abilities to overcome the challenges associated with navigating …

Map-like use of Earth's magnetic field in sharks

BA Keller, NF Putman, RD Grubbs, DS Portnoy… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Migration is common in marine animals, 1–5 and use of the map-like information of Earth's
magnetic field appears to play an important role. 2, 6–9 While sharks are iconic migrants 10 …

A unified paradigm for defining elasmobranch aggregations

AG McInturf, J Bowman, JM Schulte… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Elasmobranchs are highly diverse in movement, sensory capacity, and behavioural
responses to the environment, leading to differences in the function and nature of …

Electroreception in marine fishes: chondrichthyans

KC Newton, AB Gill, SM Kajiura - Journal of Fish Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electroreception in marine fishes occurs across a variety of taxa and is best understood in
the chondrichthyans (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras). Here, we present an up‐to‐date …

Insight into shark magnetic field perception from empirical observations

JM Anderson, TM Clegg, LV Véras, KN Holland - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Elasmobranch fishes are among a broad range of taxa believed to gain positional
information and navigate using the earth's magnetic field, yet in sharks, much remains …

The yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) can use magnetic field polarity to orient in space and solve a maze

KC Newton, SM Kajiura - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) have been hypothesized to use the
geomagnetic field (GMF) to maintain a sense of direction as they navigate throughout their …

Effects of auditory and visual stimuli on shark feeding behaviour: the disco effect

LA Ryan, L Chapuis, JM Hemmi, SP Collin… - Marine biology, 2018 - Springer
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 …

The yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) can discriminate the geomagnetic cues necessary for a bicoordinate magnetic map

KC Newton, SM Kajiura - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) are hypothesized to use environmental
cues, such as the geomagnetic field (GMF), to navigate across the ocean. However, testing …

Advances in the sensory biology of elasmobranchs

TL Meredith, SM Kajiura, KC Newton… - Biology of sharks …, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Sensory systems allow organisms to sense and respond to stimuli in their environments. As
with most animals, elasmobranchs rely on all of their senses, often in concert, to mediate …