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Published online 22 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061120-5
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Fish 'personalities' shaped by life experience
Triumph and despair alter fishes' future behaviour.
You might be forgiven for thinking that fish have no personality. But according to biologists in Britain, not only do different trout have different characters, but these change as the fish experience life's highs and lows.
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