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Dr Mike Webster
Lecturer in Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology
My research is concerned with the functions and evolution of social behaviour in animals. I’m particularly interested in how groups are organised, how animals interact and acquire information from one another, and in how individual behaviour affects and is affected by that of the group. For the most part I use shoaling fishes and aquatic crustaceans as study systems for understanding more general aspects of social behaviour.
For more information and a full list of publications please see my other site.
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Recent publications
4 (of 4 published available) for mmw1 with keyword EXPERIENCE clear keyword filter. (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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2019 (24/1)
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.222
(Article)
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.222
(Article)
No experimental evidence of stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Tania Cecilia Mendo Aguilar, Franziska Broell, Michael Munro Webster
Keywords: Thermal preference, Fish welfare, Emotional fever, Fish stress, Behavioural thermoregulation, Ectotherm thermoregulation
Tania Cecilia Mendo Aguilar, Franziska Broell, Michael Munro Webster
Keywords: Thermal preference, Fish welfare, Emotional fever, Fish stress, Behavioural thermoregulation, Ectotherm thermoregulation
2018 (12)
Animal Behaviour
vol.146 pp.63-70
(Article)
Animal Behaviour
vol.146 pp.63-70
(Article)
Experience shapes social information use in foraging fish
Michael Munro Webster, Kevin Neville Laland
Keywords: Producer-scrounger, Public information, Social information, Social learning, Social transmission
Michael Munro Webster, Kevin Neville Laland
Keywords: Producer-scrounger, Public information, Social information, Social learning, Social transmission
2017
Behavioral Ecology
vol.28 pp.77-84
(Article)
Behavioral Ecology
vol.28 pp.77-84
(Article)
Experience and motivation shape leader-follower interactions in fish shoals
Michael Munro Webster
Keywords: Leadership, Self-organization, Social foraging, Social information, Social organization
Michael Munro Webster
Keywords: Leadership, Self-organization, Social foraging, Social information, Social organization
2017 (18/4)
Nature Ecology and Evolution
vol.1
(Article)
Nature Ecology and Evolution
vol.1
(Article)
Fish pool their experience to solve problems collectively
Michael Munro Webster, Kevin Neville Laland
Michael Munro Webster, Kevin Neville Laland
Contact Details:
Dr Mike WebsterHarold Mitchell Building
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9TH
Fife
UK
tel: 01334 461690
fax: 01334 461690
room: 3.9
email: mmw1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Related:
research@st-andrewsSocial Learning and Evolution
Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution
School of Biology
Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences
IBANS Animal Cognition
IBANS Behavioural Ecology
Biology Teaching Committee
Scottish Oceans Institute
The Sir John Templeton Foundation
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Scottish Oceans Institute
Institiud Chuantan na h-Alba
Gatty Marine Laboratory
East Sands St Andrews
KY16 8LB
Scotland
UK
tel: +44 (0) 1334 463472
fax: +44 (0) 1334 463443
email: soi@st-andrews.ac.uk
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