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Predator avoidance: Threat learning in week-old zebrafish
Kathleen A Martin1, Matthew Lovett-Barron1
1Department of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|January 7, 2025
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As soon as they can move, animals must learn to avoid potential predators. New research demonstrates that larval zebrafish can quickly learn to avoid specific predator-like robots in their first week of life, through coordinated noradrenergic and forebrain activity.
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