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From: Plasticity of electric organ discharge waveform in the South African Bulldog fish, Marcusenius pongolensis: tradeoff between male attractiveness and predator avoidance?

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Tanks A and B (Treatment 1). Stage 1: three fish individually kept in three serially adjoining compartments per tank, separated by plastic mesh partitions. Stage 2: certain resident males were exchanged for stranger males. Tanks C and D (Treatment 2): communal tanks for 3 fish each, after 3 weeks plastic mesh partitions separated the fish. Individuals coded RM, "resident" males; SM, "stranger" males; M, males; F, females. F and M were kept in groups even before Treatment 2 started.

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Frontiers in Zoology

ISSN: 1742-9994