Intraspecific agonistic interactions in freely swimming mormyrid fish, Marcusenius macrolepidotus (South African form)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-4610
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.461

Werneyer, Martin ; Kramer, Bernd

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Abstract

South African bulldogs (Marcusenius macrolepidotus, Mormyridae) generate brief (less than I ms) electric organ discharges (EODs), separated by much longer and highly variable inter-discharge intervals (IDIs). The diurnal and nocturnal overt behaviour and electrical activity were studied under various conditions: in isolated fish, in pairs of fish, and in a group of four fish that were kept in a ...