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Brain Size Determines Whether Fish are Hunters or Slackers
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:05 am
by Flutter
While it wasn't done on puffers I thought this might interest some of you.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2010/08/_br ... e_det.html
It's definitely nothing overly complex or surprising but still interesting
Re: Brain Size Determines Whether Fish are Hunters or Slackers
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:48 am
by Kyle D
Awesome find and a great read!
Also...woohoo! Go Guelph!
Re: Brain Size Determines Whether Fish are Hunters or Slackers
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:38 am
by Nick
I hate the article title, lol. It's quite interesting, but the researchers specifically say that overall brain size is not so different, but that the behavioral differences are correlated with the development of a particular portion of the brain. They don't even know if the behavior results in the brain differences, or if the brain differences stimulate the active hunting vs. lurking behaviors in these trout.
Re: Brain Size Determines Whether Fish are Hunters or Slackers
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:36 am
by Flutter
Yeah, the title is horrible
I imagine they'll go on to look at those things or someone else will.