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21 - Fish Social Networks

from Part IV - Social Learning and Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

By
Matthew J. Hasenjager  and
William Hoppitt
Edited by
Allison B. Kaufman ,
Josep Call  and
James C. Kaufman
Allison B. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Josep Call
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

By responding to information gained through observing or interacting with other individuals, fish can learn about important aspects of their environment, including where to forage, how to recognize and avoid predators, and who to mate with. Social learning processes are often closely intertwined with the social environment; whether individuals engage in social learning, who they learn from, and what they learn frequently depend on complex, nonrandom patterns of social interaction. Social network analysis provides a sophisticated toolset for quantifying such elements of social structure. In this chapter, we discuss how integrating social network approaches with investigations into social learning have provided novel and important insights regarding the ways in which fish acquire and use social information in realistic social contexts.

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social network analysissocial learningsocial informationsocial transmissionsocial structuresocial eavesdroppingmate choice copyingcommunicationfish
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The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition , pp. 486 - 502
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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