Handed foraging behavior in scale-eating cichlid fish: its potential role in shaping morphological asymmetry.

Scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika display handed (lateralized) foraging behavior, where an asymmetric 'left' mouth morph preferentially feeds on the scales of the right side of its victim fish and a 'right' morph bites the scales of the left s...

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Main Authors: Hyuk Je Lee, Henrik Kusche, Axel Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3435272?pdf=render