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| Title |
Magnetic Alignment in Carps: Evidence from the Czech Christmas Fish Market
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0051100 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Vlastimil Hart, Tomáš Kušta, Pavel Němec, Veronika Bláhová, Miloš Ježek, Petra Nováková, Sabine Begall, Jaroslav Červený, Vladimír Hanzal, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Kamil Štípek, Christiane Vole, Hynek Burda |
| Abstract |
While magnetoreception in birds has been studied intensively, the literature on magnetoreception in bony fish, and particularly in non-migratory fish, is quite scarce. We examined alignment of common carps (Cyprinus carpio) at traditional Christmas sale in the Czech Republic. The sample comprised measurements of the directional bearings in 14,537 individual fish, distributed among 80 large circular plastic tubs, at 25 localities in the Czech Republic, during 817 sampling sessions, on seven subsequent days in December 2011. We found that carps displayed a statistically highly significant spontaneous preference to align their bodies along the North-South axis. In the absence of any other common orientation cues which could explain this directional preference, we attribute the alignment of the fish to the geomagnetic field lines. It is apparent that the display of magnetic alignment is a simple experimental paradigm of great heuristic potential. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 13% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 9 | 56% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 81% |
| Scientists | 3 | 19% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Czechia | 3 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 72 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 22% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 20% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 40 | 49% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Psychology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 68. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 December 2020.
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