Consistent Antipredator Behavioral Responses among Populations of Red River Pupfish with Disparate Predator Communities

Author:

Anderson Cody M.1,Wisenden Brian D.2,Craig Cody A.3ORCID,Stockwell Craig A.4ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Environmental & Conservation Sciences Graduate Program, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA

2. Department of Biosciences, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN 56563, USA

3. Arrowhead Ecology Group, 110 Bugg Lane, San Marcos, TX 78667, USA

4. Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA

Abstract

Many desert fishes, which evolved in isolated aquatic “islands” with limited predation pressure, have been severely impacted by non-native predators. These impacts have been attributed to the evolutionary loss of antipredator competence, known as the predator naiveté hypothesis. Recent work provided support for this hypothesis for one desert fish species. We sought to examine the generality of the predator naiveté hypothesis by evaluating antipredator competence in five populations of Red River pupfish (Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis), a species that occupies habitats that vary in the degree of isolation and levels of fish species richness. Fish were exposed to a conspecific chemical alarm cue released from damaged epidermal tissue as a general assay of antipredator response. We found that pupfish from all five populations exhibited antipredator behavior in response to the alarm cue, regardless of the exposure to predation risk. These data provide evidence that antipredator responses to alarm cues are conserved in Red River pupfish, even in populations isolated from piscivorous species.

Funder

North Dakota State University’s Environmental & Conservation Sciences Graduate Program

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Ecology,Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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