PROGRAMA GULBENKIAN CHAMPALIMAUD EM NEUROCIÊNCIAS, NEURONAL AND ENDOCRINE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING COGNITIVE APPRAISAL AND SOCIAL MODULATION OF BEHAVIOUR IN ZEBRAFISH DANIO RERIO
Publication . Abreu, Rodrigo Manuel Abril; Oliveira, Rui
Group living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between
conspecifics. This enables them to collect adaptively relevant
information about others, without incurring in the costs of first-hand
information acquisition. Such ability, aka social eavesdropping, is
expected to impact Darwinian fitness and hence predicts the evolution
of cognitive processes that enable social animals to use social
information available in the environment.(...)