Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid
Swantje Grätsch, Alessandro Dorigo, Vaishnavi Agarwal, Ash V Parker, Isabela Hernández Murcia, Manuel Stemmer, Abdelrahman Ahmed Adel, Alex Jordan, Herwig Baier
The paper investigates nest-building behavior in cichlids, finding it involves innate templates and flexible schema with neural correlates in hippocampus-like regions.
Current Biology · Apr 10, 2026Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition