title: Sensory cues employed for the acquisition of familiarity-dependent recognition of a shoal of conspecifics by climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch).
abstract: In this study we showed that a freshwater fish, the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) is incapable of using chemical communication but employs visual cues to acquire familiarity and distinguish a familiar group of conspecifics from an unfamiliar one. Moreover, the isolation of olfactory signals from visual cues did not affect the recognition and preference for a familiar shoal in this species.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore 560 012, India, vvbinoy@gmail.com.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Binoy
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kasturirangan
authors.forename: Anindya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinha
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D017753:Ecosystem; D055696:Olfactory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010471:Perches; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*