Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

Fish serve as hosts to a range of parasites that are taxonomically diverse and that exhibit a
wide variety of life cycle strategies. Whereas many of these parasites are passed directly …

The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about
groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …

This book celebrates the guppy's unique contribution to evolutionary ecology. Ever since
Caryl Haskins described guppy populations as a'natural experiment'because of the way …

A variety of development characteristics, morphological, behavioural, and experiential,
contribute to the extreme vulnerability of young fishes to predation. The influence of these …

Previous studies have shown that guppies, Poecilia reticulata, can learn the route to a food
source by shoaling with knowledgeable conspecifics, and prefer to shoal with experienced …

This work represents the modern state of research on schooling behavior in fish, its basic
patterns, and causal mechanisms. We consider the occurrence of schooling in fish, the …

There are widespread records of grouping behaviour in both adult and juvenile sharks and
rays (Class Chondrichthyes, Subclass Elasmobranchii). Yet despite burgeoning descriptions …

Fish have been shown to discriminate between individuals on very general bases such as
species, body length and colour. More recently, evidence has been accumulating from a …

Previous work has demonstrated that fish prefer to school with familiar individuals. In this
study schooling preferences for familiar female guppies, Poecilia reticulata, developed …