Journal article
Reflective environment heightens crayfish aggressive and fearful behaviors
microPublication biology, Vol.2024(5)
05/24/2024
DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001184
PMCID: PMC11161833
PMID: 38854633
Abstract
Animals typically respond to their reflection as a conspecific and will respond as if the reflection were another animal that they could interact with, either fearfully or aggressively. We investigated how a modified reflective environment of a standard glass aquarium affects the aggressive and fearful behaviors of the crayfish Orconectes virilis, based on pre-determined behavior criteria. We found that the crayfish were both increasingly aggressive and slightly fearful in the reflective environment compared to minimal behavioral changes in the control non-reflective environment. Thus, our findings support that crayfish recognize their mirror image as a conspecific.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reflective environment heightens crayfish aggressive and fearful behaviors
- Creators
- Stephanie M RoccaDanielle N SaldanaMerve AddemirJulianna A KoenigBin Z HeOlga L MiakotinaDaniel F Eberl
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- microPublication biology, Vol.2024(5)
- DOI
- 10.17912/micropub.biology.001184
- PMID
- 38854633
- PMCID
- PMC11161833
- NLM abbreviation
- MicroPubl Biol
- ISSN
- 2578-9430
- Publisher
- microPublication Biology
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/24/2024
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984630658902771
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