Sentence examples for shy fish from inspiring English sources

The shy fish spent more than twice as much time exposed when they could see their bolder companions than when they couldn't.

These fish, each about three inches long, prefer to hide in tubes and other shelters, a behavior that helps them avoid being eaten by predators in the Amazon basin, the natural habitat of these shy fish.

But Odile Petit, a primate ethologist at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien in Strasbourg, France, would like to have seen more evidence that the increased time leaders spent exposed when in the presence of a shy fish is truly because they had a faithful buddy rather than some unknown variable that the experiment didn't test.

Social interaction and hierarchies are well documented in salmonids [ 43, 44] where in general bigger and bold fish get better access to feed than smaller and shy fish.

However, there was a negative relationship between the initial time focal fish spent out of cover (i.e. their boldness) and their change in risk-taking behaviour across the stages (rs = −0.37, N = 48, P = 0.010): bolder fish spent less time and shy fish more time out of cover during the pairing stage.

The proportion of time focal fish spent out of cover during the pairing stage was predicted by a negative interaction between their own boldness and that of their partner (F3,44 = 9.22, P = 0.008, R = 0.39): although bolder fish in general spent more time out of cover than shyer fish, being paired with a relatively bold partner decreased this difference between bold and shy fish.

As the debutantes' confidence builds, they can feel free to get right up close to watch the shyer fish, knowing for a fact, that there are no moray eels waiting to grab them by the face.

In a paper published online today in Current Biology, the team reports that when the fish could see each other, the shier fish took their cue from the bold ones, following them out of cover.

Previous studies have shown that bolder fish more often take the lead and that shyer fish more often follow (Harcourt et al., 2009; Jolles et al., 2014; Nakayama et al., 2013).

The tendency for social attraction was negatively correlated with both the boldness of the focal fish and that of its partner, i.e. bolder fish with bolder partners stayed further away from their partner's lane, whereas shyer fish with shyer partners swam closer to it.

During the pairing stage, shy focal fish swam much closer to the adjacent compartment than bold focal fish (t23.74 = 4.05, P = 0.003; Fig. 1b).