Fish Punish Mating Queue Jumpers
June 27, 2007 @ 06:38 AM (EST)
Source: Sciencealert.com.au
Fish use the threat of punishment to keep would-be jumpers in the mating queue firmly in line and the social order stable, a new study led by Australian marine scientists has found.
Their discovery, which has implications for the whole animal kingdom including humans, has been hailed by some of the world's leading biologists as a "must read" scientific paper and published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B...
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