Our team members Caroline Marques Maia, Pablo Arechavala, María Cabrera-Álvarez, and João L. Saraiva have co-authored a paper now available online as a pre-proof in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science! This study investigated the preference responses of Nile tilapia for different structural enrichments, demonstrating that such fish preferences are a matter of time and frequency of visits.
> The authors show that although Nile tilapia prefers to visit both a shelter and a complex structure similarly, this fish prefers to stay longer at the shelter. Thus, the number of visits or the time spent at a resource provides distinct preference responses.
> Access the already published pre-proof of this paper here.
(posted on 2025/01/07)
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