Alarm cues and alarmed conspecifics: neural activity during social learning from different cues in Trinidadian guppies.

ABSTRACT: Learning to respond appropriately to novel dangers is often essential to survival and success, but carries risks. Learning about novel threats from others (social learning) can reduce these risks. Many species, including the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), respond defensively to both conspecific chemical alarm cues and conspecific anti-predator behaviours, and in other fish such social information can lead to a learned aversion to novel threats. However, relatively little is known about the neural substrates underlying social learning and the degree to which different forms of learning share similar neural mechanisms. Here, we explored the neural substrates mediating social learning of novel threats from two different conspecific cues (i.e. social cue-based threat learning)

SUBMITTER: Fan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9428528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature