{"id":84420,"date":"2018-11-03T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/friends-to-the-end-social-cues-cause-fish-to-delay-survival-tactic"},"modified":"2018-11-03T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:44:21","slug":"friends-to-the-end-social-cues-cause-fish-to-delay-survival-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/friends-to-the-end-social-cues-cause-fish-to-delay-survival-tactic","title":{"rendered":"Friends to the end? Social cues cause fish to delay survival tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/friends-to-the-end-social-cues-cause-fish-to-delay-survival-tactic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have some patience until someone takes the lead, and let\u2019s sing some hakuna matata in the mean time.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Getting into trouble after succumbing to peer pressure isn\u2019t just a human experience.<\/p>\n<p>New research co-led by Brock University shows that a particular species of tropical, air-breathing fish that can survive for weeks on land will delay escaping from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hot+water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hot water<\/a> if it thinks one of its peers is nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Brock biologist Glenn Tattersall and Acadia University biologist Suzanne Currie studied the mangrove rivulus, a fish living in swamps from the southern U.S. to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-friends-social-cues-fish-survival.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-friends-social-cues-fish-survival.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have some patience until someone takes the lead, and let\u2019s sing some hakuna matata in the mean time. Getting into trouble after succumbing to peer pressure isn\u2019t just a human experience. New research co-led by Brock University shows that a particular species of tropical, air-breathing fish that can survive for weeks on land will delay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}