Tutors do not facilitate rapid resource exploitation in temporary tadpole aggregations.

ABSTRACT: The utilization of social cues is usually considered an important adaptation to living in social groups, but recent evidence suggests that social information use may be more prevalent in the animal kingdom than previously thought. However, it is debated whether such information can efficiently diffuse in temporary aggregations of non-grouping individuals where social cohesion does not facilitate information transmission. Here, we provide experimental evidence that a simple social cue, the movement of conspecifics in a structured environment affected individuals' spatial decisions in common frog (Rana temporaria) tadpoles and thereby facilitated the discovery rate of a novel food patch. However, this was true only in those tadpole collectives that consisted solely of untutored indivi

SUBMITTER: Toth Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8113892 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature