Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Soares D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3629028 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soares Daphne D Bierman Hilary S HS
PloS one 20130416 4
Many fishes are able to jump out of the water and launch themselves into the air. Such behavior has been connected with prey capture, migration and predator avoidance. We found that jumping behavior of the guppy Poecilia reticulata is not associated with any of the above. The fish jump spontaneously, without being triggered by overt sensory cues, is not migratory and does not attempt to capture aerial food items. Here, we use high speed video imaging to analyze the kinematics of the jumping beha ...[more]