{
  "id": 7840027,
  "title": "Risky bait: capture experience alters feeding mode toward angling gear in red sea bream",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/risky-bait-capture-experience-alters-feeding-mode-toward-angling-gear",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750600v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The red sea bream (Pagrus major) is a species of fish that exhibits a fascinating behavioral adaptation when faced with the challenge of capturing bait using angling gear. Initial observations revealed that naive fish rapidly swallowed the bait upon encountering it, only to be subsequently captured by the angling gear. However, those fish that had previously experienced capture began approaching the gear but altered their feeding behavior, shifting from swallowing to biting the bait instead. This shift in feeding mode may enable the fish to continue exploiting the bait while mitigating the risk of capture. Through careful examination using fine-scale video observations, researchers have provided a clear behavioral explanation for the observed reduced vulnerability in angling. These findings suggest that direct experience with capture risk can significantly alter the feeding strategies employed by fish when confronted with rewarding food resources.",
  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}