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12 October 2020 Visual Cues Have a More Extensive Effect on Topmouth Gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) than Chemosensory Cues in Identifying Novel Predators
Chao Fan, Yanming Zhang
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Abstract

Through population expansion and accidental or deliberate introduction, prey commonly encounter novel predators they had never seen before. Several studies have shown that animals can generalize their learned recognition of a familiar predator to novel ones according to predators' identical or similar features. This process in fish mainly depends on the visual and chemosensory cues they receive. However, there is a lack of understanding of the different effects of these two cues. Topmouth gudgeons (Pseudorasbora parva) that had never seen turtles were captured and used as the subjects, and three freshwater turtles of different genera were used as predators. Before and after using one turtle for predator training treatment of topmouth gudgeons, fish responses to visual and chemosensory cues of each turtle were tested and recorded, and it was found that predator training promoted topmouth gudgeons' recognition of the risks represented by visual cues of all three turtles and by chemosensory cues of the turtle that were used in training. These results further verify the generalization of predator recognition in fish and indicate that visual cues have a more extensive effect on fish than chemosensory cues in identifying novel predators, especially predators that are distantly related to the familiar threats.

© 2020 Zoological Society of Japan
Chao Fan and Yanming Zhang "Visual Cues Have a More Extensive Effect on Topmouth Gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) than Chemosensory Cues in Identifying Novel Predators," Zoological Science 37(6), 505-511, (12 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.2108/zs200062
Received: 21 April 2020; Accepted: 8 July 2020; Published: 12 October 2020
KEYWORDS
Chemosensory cues
learned predator recognition
novel predator
topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva)
visual cues
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