Researchers find fish 'yells' to be heard over human made noise
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:50
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University in Alabama has found that one type of fish responds to environmental noise by increasing the volume of its own calls. In their paper published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, Daniel Holt and Carol Johnston describe a study they undertook that involved recording blacktail shiners trying to communicate over artificially induced noise in a tank of water in their lab.