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dc.contributor.advisorLaland, Kevin N.
dc.contributor.advisorWebster, Mike (Mike M.)
dc.contributor.authorChouinard-Thuly, Laura
dc.coverage.spatial42 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-11T12:29:18Z
dc.date.available2013-02-11T12:29:18Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3349
dc.description.abstractMany studies demonstrated the use, and strategies of use, of public information -or the ability of an observer to assess a resource’s quality by watching inadvertent behavioural cues- in the ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) presented with a foraging patch assessment problem. Many aspects of behaviour were seen to vary with an increased feeding rate and identifying the one responsible for transmission of information is difficult with live demonstrators. This project created and utilized computer-animated ninespine sticklebacks to isolate behaviours and test which ones are used by observers to gain information. We predicted and found that out of six different behaviours associated with an increase in feeding rate, strike rate is the one used to assess foraging patches’ quality. Observer ninespine sticklebacks preferred to associate with sides that were formerly associated with an animated shoal of conspecifics different only in the amount of strikes per demonstration period, in a ratio of six versus two.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSocial learningen_US
dc.subjectSticklebacksen_US
dc.subject.lccQL638.G27C5en_US
dc.subject.lcshNinespine stickleback--Behavioren_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial behavior in animalsen_US
dc.subject.lcshLearning in animalsen_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial learningen_US
dc.titlePublic information use in ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius) : isolating the mechanisms using computer-animated stimulien_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhil Master of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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