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Variation in search and predatory attack strategies of shark mackerel Grammatorcynus bicarinatus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2008
Abstract
I observed shark mackerel demonstrating multiple search and attack strategies. Strategies were categorized as three distinct types: (1) a linear search by single or groups of fish along reef features; (2) ambush from a stationary position on the seafloor; and (3) ambush from resting schools of co-occurring predators. Together these strategies were consistent with both information-sharing and producer–scrounger models of group foraging and indicate significant flexibility in individual fish foraging behaviour based on proximate conditions.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 847 - 849
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008
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