Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks?

ABSTRACT: In animals living in groups, the social environment is fundamental to shaping the behaviors and life histories of an individual. A mismatch between individual and group behavior patterns may have disadvantages if the individual is incapable of flexibly changing its state in response to the social environment that influences its energy gain and expenditure. We used different social groups of juvenile three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with experimentally manipulated compositions of individual sociability to study the feedback between individual and group behaviors and to test how the social environment shapes behavior, metabolic rate, and growth. Experimentally created unsociable groups, containing a high proportion of less sociable fish, showed bolder collective beha

SUBMITTER: Kim SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844133 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature