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bat. A multi-disciplinary approach to animal behavior requires close collaboration with a variety of specialists and a feature of Ryan's work is the significant input made by such people as Stanley Rand, Merlin Tuttle and GeorgeBartholomew to specific aspects of the study. This book should be required reading for any aspiring student setting out on a major study in behavioral ecology. It presents an ideal model of a careful, well thought-out research strategy, with a good blend of observational work and field experiment, securely founded in a thorough understanding of relevant theory. The only danger, so high a standard has Mike Ryan set, is that some students may be deterred by the enormity of the task from ever setting out to try to emulate him.-TIM HALLIDAY, Department
SynopsisThe encephalization indices of angelfishes (Pomacanthidae) and butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) are typical of advanced perciform fishes: both families lie in the upper part of the polygon of teleost indices, The chaetodontids seem to be a little more encephalized than pomacanthids. The general morphology of the brains in both families is very similar: small olfactory bulbs, large optic tectum and a cerebellum which covers the brain structures in front of it like a cap. This morphology is shared by another family of the coral reef biotope, the Acanthuridae, The histological architecture is also typical of advanced teleosts, with a cortexlike pallium, a laminated nucleus geniculatus (= pretectalis superficialis), a complex valvula cerebelli and a corpus glomerulosum with a clear neuropile centre. The quantitative analysis of the main subdivisions of the brain, either from relative volumes or from indices, shows small olfactory bulbs (microsmy) but important telencephalic and diencephalic centres, large tectal centres (vision) and large cerebellum (precise locomotion). Many of these peculiarities are shared by other fishes inhabiting coral reefs. The differences between the two families seem to be primarily correlated with food habits: the angelfishes, which are sponge-feeders and may have an overweight due to the ballast of the sponge-skeleton in their digestive tract, and which do not need either such good vision or such precise locomotion to pick up their prey, could be a little less encephalized than the butterflyfishes.
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