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Fish 'personalities' shaped by life experience

Triumph and despair alter fishes' future behaviour.

You might be forgiven for thinking that fish have no personality. But according to biologists in Britain, not only do different trout have different characters, but these change as the fish experience life's highs and lows.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 22, 2006 12:01 AM |

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