Risky bait: capture experience alters feeding mode toward angling gear in red sea bream
When food resources provide reward while simultaneously imposing risk, animals can regulate their behaviour to continue exploiting them while reducing associated costs. Angling presents such a feeding situation, in which obtaining bait can result in hooking and capture. Although fish become less vulnerable to angling following capture experience, the behavioural changes underlying this reduced…
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