ArticleScientific reports2017
Lateralized scale-eating behaviour of cichlid is acquired by learning to use the naturally stronger side.
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- Prey capture strategies relate to prey position in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis.Biology open · 2026Article
- Dominant eye-dependent lateralized behavior in the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bilateral asymmetry in craniofacial structures and kinematics of feeding attacks in the scale-eating cichlid fish,Zoological research · 2025Article
- The repeatability of behavioural laterality during nest building in zebra finches.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Experience-dependent learning of behavioral laterality in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis occurs during the early developmental stage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Rapid adaptive evolution of scale-eating kinematics to a novel ecological niche.The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Temporal inactivation enhances robustness in an evolving system.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Gene(s) and individual feeding behavior: Exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics underlying left-right asymmetry in the scale-eating cichlid fishEcology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
The scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis exhibits significant lateralised predation behaviour using an asymmetric mouth. But how the acquisition of the behavioural laterality depends, if at all, on experience during development remains obscure. Here, naïve juveniles were tested in a series of predation sessions. Initially, they attacked both sides of the prey, but during subsequent sessions, attack direction gradually lateralised to the skewed mouth (dominant) side. Attack side preference of juveniles that had accumulated scale-eating experience during successive sessions was significantly higher than that of naïve juveniles at the same age and naïve adults. Thus, the lateralised behaviour was a learned experience, and did not develop with age. Surprisingly, however, both maximum amplitude and angular velocity of body flexion during attack of naïve fish was dominant on one side. Therefore, scale-eating fish have a naturally stronger side for attacking prey fish, and they learn to use the dominant side through experience.
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