Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (<i>Poecilia reticulata</i>) depend on social cues from females
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Abstract
Abstract Many prey species rely on publicly available personal and social information regarding local predation threats to assess risks and make context-appropriate behavioral decisions. However, in sexually dimorphic species, males and females are expected to differ in the perceived costs and/or benefits associated with predator avoidance decisions. Recent studies suggest that male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) show reduced or absent responses to acute personal information cues, placing them at greater risk of predation relative to females. Our goal here was to test the hypothesis that adult (reproductively active) male guppies rely on social information to limit potential costs associated with their lack of response to risky personal cues. Adult male guppies were exposed to personal chemosensory cues (either conspecific alarm cues (AC), a novel odor, or a water control) in the presence of a shoal of three females inside a holding container that allowed the transmission of visual but not chemical cues. At the same time, we exposed females to either risk from AC or no risk, resulting in the display of a range of female behavior, from calm to alarmed, available as social information for males. Alarmed females caused male fright activity to increase and male interest in females to decrease, regardless of the personal cue treatment. These results indicate that male guppies rely more on female information regarding predation risk than their own personal information, probably to balance trade-offs between reproduction and predator avoidance.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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