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Population differences in the reaction of minnows to alarm substance*
Authors:P B Levesley  A E Magurran
Abstract:Experiments showed that minnows, Phoxinus phoxinus, sympatric with pike, Esox lucius, responded more vigorously to alarm substance than minnows from a population with no experience of pike predation in the wild. Minnows from the pike-sympatric (Dorset) population were more likely to hide and less likely to risk feeding than their pike-allopatric (Gwynedd) counterparts. The reaction to alarm substance in the pike-sympatric population was further increased when it was presented along with the visual stimulus of a ‘stalking’ model pike. When the Dorset minnows experienced both alarm substance and the pike model together they reduced their inspection behaviour to a level below that of the Gwynedd minnows. Minnows from the Gwynedd (pike-allopatric) population displayed increased levels of shoaling in the treatments in which alarm substance was used.
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