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Fish 'personalities' shaped by life experience

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Triumph and despair alter fishes' future behaviour.

Even fish learn from the 'university of life'. Credit: Roddy Field, Roslin Institute

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    FrostA. J., Winrow-GiffenA., AshleyP. J.& SneddonL. U., . Proc. R. Soc. B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3751 (2006).

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Hopkin, M. Fish 'personalities' shaped by life experience. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news061120-5

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