Highly repetitive object play in a cichlid fish (tropheus duboisi)
Whether play occurs in fishes has long been a contentious issue, but recent observations document that social, object, and locomotor play can all be found
Whether play occurs in fishes has long been a contentious issue, but recent observations document that social, object, and locomotor play can all be found
Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa are often dichotomized as either ‘social’ or ‘non-social’. We argue that
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