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The Behavior of Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus, with Novel Food in Individual and Social Conditions

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Results of investigation of how social context affects responses to, and consumption of the novel food in climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, are presented. The fish living in group fed better from the first day of the experiment. The quantity of consumed pellets always exceeded that in solitary specimens. Their rate of habituation to the novel food was always significantly higher.

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Original Russian Text © D.D. Zworykin, 2018, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 235–239.

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Zworykin, D.D. The Behavior of Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus, with Novel Food in Individual and Social Conditions. J. Ichthyol. 58, 260–264 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945218020169

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