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Innovative behaviour in fish: Atlantic cod can learn to use an external tag to manipulate a self-feeder

Overview of attention for article published in Animal Cognition, November 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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22 X users
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1 Wikipedia page
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Title
Innovative behaviour in fish: Atlantic cod can learn to use an external tag to manipulate a self-feeder
Published in
Animal Cognition, November 2013
DOI 10.1007/s10071-013-0710-3
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Authors

Sandie Millot, Jonatan Nilsson, Jan Erik Fosseidengen, Marie-Laure Bégout, Anders Fernö, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Tore S. Kristiansen

Abstract

This study describes how three individual fish, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.), developed a novel behaviour and learnt to use a dorsally attached external tag to activate a self-feeder. This behaviour was repeated up to several hundred times, and over time these fish fine-tuned the behaviour and made a series of goal-directed coordinated movements needed to attach the feeder's pull string to the tag and stretch the string until the feeder was activated. These observations demonstrate a capacity in cod to develop a novel behaviour utilizing an attached tag as a tool to achieve a goal. This may be seen as one of the very few observed examples of innovation and tool use in fish.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Germany 1 1%
Austria 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 65 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 20%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Professor 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 47%
Psychology 8 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Philosophy 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 16 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 January 2023.
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#813,612
of 25,225,928 outputs
Outputs from Animal Cognition
#202
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Outputs of similar age
#8,389
of 315,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animal Cognition
#9
of 27 outputs
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