BLAB: BLAB on fish cognition this Friday

[Gary Varner]

The topic of this week's BLAB (Friday, October 3) is cognition in fish. 
We'll meet at 4:00 at Colin's house. Email him if you need directions.

The readings were attached to an earlier email from me. If you need 
copies, let me know and I will send them to you.

Recently an entire edition of the journal *Fish and Fisheries* was 
devoted to the topic, and some in the news media picked up on the short 
overview article titled “Learning in Fishes: From Three-second Memory to 
Culture.” Here are two examples of the reporting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3189941.stm
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1421527

I chose two papers from the issue. Our required reading will be the one 
titled "Social learning in fishes: a review," and the recommended 
reading will be "Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses 
in fishes."

The journal is available on-line via Evans Library if anyone cares to 
look at the other papers in this issue

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