Fish Behavior 2 : Ethophysiology.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Reproductive Behavior: Spawners -- 1.1. The preparatory phase of pre-spawning: the preliminaries -- 1.1.1. Selection of sexual partners -- 1.1.2. Seducers -- 1.1.3. Courtiers -- 1.1.4. Reversal of roles -- 1.1.5. Forbidden love -- 1.1.6. Spawning aggregations -- 1.1.7. Practicing polygamy* -- 1.1.8. Homosexuals -- 1.1.9. Sexual disabilities -- 1.1.10. More or less aberrant sexuality -- 1.2. The phase of realization: couplings and spawning -- 1.2.1. Alternative mating strategies -- 1.2.2. Freely consensual couplings -- 1.2.3. Harassers -- 1.2.4. Violent couplings -- 1.2.5. Hybrids -- 1.2.6. Fleeting loves -- 1.2.7. Discreet love -- 1.2.8. Cuckolds and cuckolders -- 1.2.9. Hermaphrodites -- 1.2.10. Transsexuals -- 1.2.11. Unisex populations -- 1.2.12. Fatherless fish by parthenogenesis -- 1.2.13. Posthumous paternity -- 2. Reproductive Behavior: Parents -- 2.1. The post-spawning phase: the future of the offspring -- 2.1.1. Nest builders -- 2.1.2. Incubating clutches in the mouth -- 2.1.3. Deserters -- 2.1.4. Gestation -- 2.2. Parental care -- 2.2.1. Providing parental care -- 2.2.2. Having good parents -- 2.2.3. Larval recruitment -- 2.2.4. Metamorphoses -- 2.2.5. Miniaturized fish -- 3. Remarkable Capabilities -- 3.1. Aces of ballistics -- 3.1.1. Stronger than William Tell? -- 3.1.2. Using a stream of water to hunt -- 3.2. Possession of a black box -- 3.2.1. An inviolable personal identity card -- 3.2.2. Traveling leaves traces, like a real passport -- 3.2.3. A birth certificate -- 3.2.4. Proof of diet -- 3.2.5. Belonging to a stock -- 3.2.6. Parasites used as biological markers -- 3.3. Using tools -- 3.3.1. A form of intelligence from which fish are not excluded -- 3.3.2. Using an anvil.

3.3.3. Capabilities related to the size of their brains? -- 3.4. Capacity to play -- 3.4.1. Expression of a certain well-being -- 3.4.2. A toy in an aquarium -- 3.5. Artists -- 3.6. Counting -- 3.6.1. Quantitative knowledge of their environment -- 3.6.2. Innate quantitative knowledge which is perfected -- 3.6.3. Clever fish -- 3.6.4. Inter-individual variability -- 3.7. Having a personality -- 3.7.1. Not all fish are identical -- 3.7.2. Individual and inter-sexual differences -- 3.7.3. Customized food preferences -- 3.7.4. Differences in risk-taking -- 3.7.5. Personality changes related to age and parental life -- 3.7.6. Personality traits varying according to environmental factors -- 3.7.7. Differences in migratory behavior -- 3.7.8. Personalized mutual relations -- 3.7.9. Complex motivations -- 3.7.10. Different brain potential -- 3.7.11. Higher metabolic potential -- 3.7.12. Influence of the genome -- 3.7.13. Early expression of personality -- 3.7.14. Social influence -- 3.8. Disguise -- 3.8.1. Offensive mimicry for feeding -- 3.8.2. Offensive mimicry for reproductive purposes -- 3.8.3. Defensive mimicry -- 3.8.4. A dual strategy, both offensive and defensive -- 3.8.5. Deceiving one's sex partner: the height of dishonesty? -- 3.8.6. Fooling rivals -- 3.8.7. Counter-adaptation to flush out cheaters -- 3.8.8. Fooling customers -- 3.9. Having a very precise biological clock -- 3.9.1. The day-night "circadian" cycle -- 3.9.2. The lunar or semi-lunar cycle of tides or tidal rhythm* -- 3.9.3. Fish showing original qualities -- 3.9.4. Additional role of melatonin in health and fitness -- 4. Neurological and Neuroendocrine Conditioning Requirements -- 4.1. Experience of stress and suffering -- 4.1.1. Sensitivity to stress -- 4.1.2. Actual suffering? -- 4.1.3. Neuropsychological data compared and a mental construct of pain in fish.

4.1.4. Safeguarding well-being -- 4.2. A question asked about their period of inactivity: are they able to sleep? -- 4.2.1. Do fish really sleep? -- 4.2.2. Experimental sleep deprivation generating anomalies in cognitive performance -- 4.2.3. Insomniac populations -- 4.3. The complexity of their brains: their cognitive abilities -- 4.3.1. A primitive brain in a lower vertebrate? -- 4.3.2. Physiological basis of stress common to all vertebrates -- 4.3.3. Memorization skills -- 4.3.4. Brain differences between the two sexes -- 4.3.5. Brain differences related to the physical and social environment -- 4.3.6. Brain activity stimulated during the reproductive period -- 4.3.7. Morpho-anatomo-physiological lateralization -- 4.3.8. Lateralization of the brain -- 4.3.9. Differences between selachians and teleosts -- 4.3.10. Cerebral sexual dimorphism -- 4.3.11. Forms of training -- 4.3.12. Really intelligent fish? -- 4.3.13. Remarkable cognitive skills in sharks -- 4.3.14. Fish as victims of optical illusions -- 4.3.15. Recognition of human faces -- 4.3.16. Sensitivity to music -- 4.3.17. Active embryonic and/or larval ontogenesis* or neurogenesis -- 4.3.18. The certain existence of collective intelligence -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Species Index -- Summary of Volume 1 -- Other titles from iSTE in Ecological Science -- EULA.

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