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| Di Poi, C; Beauchaud, M; Bouchut, C; Dutto, Gilbert; Coves, Denis; Attia, J. |
| In self-feeding conditions, a few individual sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax (L., 1758)) display strong activity in striking the food dispenser, whereas the remaining individuals of the group actuate the feeder weakly or never. Here, we investigated the effects of removal of the individuals showing dominant activity on the social and feeding behaviours in groups of juvenile sea bass. Following removal, new fish showing a dominant self-feeding activity quickly appear. They always come from the group of fish that have a low number of triggering actuations. This observation shows that it takes less time, about 5 days after the removal of dominant triggerers vs. 14 days at the beginning, for the re-establishment of the behavioural structure, suggesting the... |
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| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4766.pdf |
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| Millot, Sandie; Begout, Marie-laure; Person, Jeannine; Breuil, Gilles; Di Poi, C; Fievet, Julie; Pineau, Philippe; Roue, M; Severe, Armelle. |
| Feeding motivation is one major indicator of fish welfare and an investigation on the link between feed demand, growth and physiological variables in sea bass juveniles was developed. A computerized on-demand feeding system coupled with a PIT tag monitoring device was used to continuously record for 219 days the triggering activity of 150 individuals (initial average body weight 131.6 +/- 1.80 g and coefficient of variation 16.8%). Each group was held in 400 1 tanks at 22.2 +/- 1.5 degrees C and light regime was 16:8 LD. In all the tanks, 89% of the fish actuated the trigger, but only two or three fish accounted for 45% of the total triggering activity. These few high-triggering individuals had a transient higher growth i.e. at the time an individual was... |
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Palavras-chave: Welfare; Social interaction; Growth; Feeding activity. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-3738.pdf |
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