Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish
Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish
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DOI：
10.1038/424145a
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发表时间：
2003-07-10
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64.8
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Buston, P
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作者：
Buston, P
利益冲突是生活在一个社会群体中不可或缺的一部分，尽管它们会降低个体成员的适应性。在这里，我表明，小丑鱼（Amphiprion percula）调整自己的大小和增长速度，根据他们的位置在组层次结构，保持一个明确的大小差异，就个人在社会地位高于他们。这种防止冲突的策略与许多动物在群体内改变行为的更常见策略有着惊人的不同。
Conflicts of interest are part and parcel of living in a social group, although these can reduce the fitness of individual members. Here I show that clownfish (Amphiprion percula) adjust their size and growth rate according to their position in the group hierarchy, maintaining a well-defined size difference with respect to individuals above them in social rank. This strategy to prevent conflict is a surprising departure from the more usual ploy used by many animals of modifying their behaviour within the group,.