Guppies and the TIT FOR TAT strategy: preference based on past interaction

Autor:	Michael Alfieri, Lee Alan Dugatkin
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	Tit for tat Animal ecology Animal Science and Zoology Context (language use) Cognition Animal cognition Biology Social psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Preference Social relation
Zdroj:	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 28
ISSN:	1432-0762 0340-5443
DOI:	10.1007/bf00175096
Popis:	The evolution of cooperation requires either (a) nonrandom interactions, such that cooperators preferentially interact with other cooperators, or (b) conditional behaviors, such that individuals act cooperatively primarily towards other cooperators. Although these conditions can be met without assuming sophisticated animal cognition, they are more likely to be met if animals can remember individuals with whom they have interacted, associate past interactions with these individuals, and base future behavior on this information. Here we show that guppies (Poecilia reticulata), in the context of predator inspection behavior, can identify and remember (for at least 4 h) the “more cooperative” among two conspecifics and subsequently choose to be near these individuals in future encounters.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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