Quantifying changes in umbilicus size to estimate the relative age of neonatal blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

SF Debaere, OC Weideli, IA Bouyoucos… - Conservation …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sharks can incur a range of external injuries throughout their lives that originate from various
sources, but some of the most notable wounds in viviparous shark neonates are at the …

Smells Like Home: The Role of Olfactory Cues in the Homing Behavior of Blacktip Sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus

JM Gardiner, NM Whitney… - … and comparative biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Animal navigation in the marine environment is believed to be guided by different sensory
cues over different spatial scales. Geomagnetic cues are thought to guide long-range …

Shark habituation to a food-related olfactory cue

DDU Heinrich, C Huveneers, TM Houslay… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
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.• …

Magnetic field discrimination, learning, and memory in the yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis)

KC Newton, SM Kajiura - Animal Cognition, 2017 - Springer
Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) have been hypothesized to use the
geomagnetic field as a cue for orienting and navigating across a wide range of spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish automatic monitoring system for conditioning and behavioral analysis

MO Barreiros, FG Barbosa, DO Dantas, DML Santos… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Studies using zebrafish (Danio rerio) in neuro-behavioural research are growing. Measuring
fish behavior by computational methods is one of the most efficient ways to avoid human …

To roam or to home: site fidelity in a tropical coastal shark

DM Knip, MR Heupel, CA Simpfendorfer - Marine Biology, 2012 - Springer
Understanding patterns in site fidelity is important for defining the ecological role of species
in the systems they use and for gauging the effects of human impacts on their populations …

How elasmobranchs sense their environment

SP Collin, RM Kempster, KE Yopak - Fish Physiology, 2015 - Elsevier
1. Introduction 2. The Visual System 2.1. The Eye and Image Formation 2.2. Photoreception
and Spectral Sensitivity 2.3. The Retina and the Choroidal Tapetum 2.4. Visual Sampling …

Essential waters: Young bull sharks in Fiji's largest riverine system

KBJ Glaus, JM Brunnschweiler, S Piovano… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal and estuarine systems provide critical shark habitats due to their relatively high
productivity and shallow, protected waters. The young (neonates, young‐of‐the‐year, and …

The effects of familiarity on the social interactions of juvenile lemon sharks, Negaprion brevirostris

BA Keller, JS Finger, SH Gruber, DC Abel… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Investigating individual preferences using Social Network Analysis (SNA) has contributed to
understanding group formations, which hold significant evolutionary value, and the …

Managing bite risk for divers in the context of shark feeding ecotourism: A case study from French Polynesia (Eastern Pacific)

EEG Clua - Tourism Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Shark-based ecotourism has been recently expanding around the world. Provisioning
sharks, however, is not without risk and accidental bites on humans are regularly reported …