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Title: | Behavioural consistency and group conformity in humbug damselfish | Contributor(s): | Burns, Alicia L J (author); Schaerf, Timothy (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1163/1568539x-00003470 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23051 | Abstract: | Humbug damselfish, Dascyllus aruanus, are a common coral reef fish that form stable social groups with size-based social hierarchies. Here we caught whole wild groups of damselfish and tested whether social groups tended to be comprised of animals that are more similar to one another in terms of their behavioural type, than expected by chance. First we found that individuals were repeatable in their level of activity and exploration, and that this was independent of both absolute size and within-group dominance rank, indicating that animals were behaviourally consistent. Secondly, despite the fact that individuals were tested independently, the behaviour of members of the same groups was significantly more similar than expected under a null model, suggesting that individual behaviour develops and is shaped by conformity to the behaviour of other group members. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate this group-level behavioural conformity in wild-caught groups. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Behaviour, 154(13-15), p. 1343-1359 | Publisher: | Brill | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1568-539X 0005-7959 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 010202 Biological Mathematics 060201 Behavioural Ecology 060801 Animal Behaviour |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 490102 Biological mathematics 310901 Animal behaviour 310301 Behavioural ecology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences 970101 Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences 280118 Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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