What is it about?
Zebrafish, a model organism used in neuroscience and behavioral research, is highly social. Differently from laboratory rodents, zebrafish readily investigate novel fish. We attempted to understand what motivates individuals to approach unknown fish: is it novelty? Is it "safety in numbers"?
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Why is it important?
Understanding how other vertebrates choose whether or not to approach unknown individuals is important to expand the diversity of social strategies of group-living animals. It is also important if we want to use zebrafish to understand human sociality issues, such as autism and social anxiety.
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This page is a summary of: Social investigation and social novelty in zebrafish: Roles of salience and novelty, Behavioural Processes, August 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104903.
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