TY - JOUR
T1 - Modulation of risk-taking behaviour in golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas) using robotic fish
AU - Abaid, Nicole
AU - Marras, Stefano
AU - Fitzgibbons, Corine
AU - Porfiri, Maurizio
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant # CMMI-0745753 . The authors would like to thank Vladislav Kopman, for his help with the planning and implementation of mechanical materials used in this study, and the anonymous referees, for careful review and thoughtful suggestions that have helped improve the work.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - While robotic simulacra of a variety of species have been developed in recent years, their potential to modulate animal behaviour is largely unexplored. Here, we considered golden shiner behaviour in a risk-taking protocol wherein subjects swam in the presence of a perceived threat and a robotic fish. We found that the behaviour of the robot modulated risk-taking of golden shiners, with bolder and shyer fish response elicited by bolder and shyer behaviour of the robot, respectively. Moreover, fish response was observed to be not correlated with their individual boldness, measured in a separate test. The results of this work may inform the design of engineering methods to regulate fish behaviour for the purposes of animal control, conservation, and production using readily-deployable autonomous robots.
AB - While robotic simulacra of a variety of species have been developed in recent years, their potential to modulate animal behaviour is largely unexplored. Here, we considered golden shiner behaviour in a risk-taking protocol wherein subjects swam in the presence of a perceived threat and a robotic fish. We found that the behaviour of the robot modulated risk-taking of golden shiners, with bolder and shyer fish response elicited by bolder and shyer behaviour of the robot, respectively. Moreover, fish response was observed to be not correlated with their individual boldness, measured in a separate test. The results of this work may inform the design of engineering methods to regulate fish behaviour for the purposes of animal control, conservation, and production using readily-deployable autonomous robots.
KW - Boldness
KW - Ethorobotics
KW - Notemigonus crysoleucas
KW - Robotics
KW - Social behaviour
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U2 - 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.07.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 23876393
AN - SCOPUS:84881527236
VL - 100
SP - 9
EP - 12
JO - Behavioural Processes
JF - Behavioural Processes
SN - 0376-6357
ER -