Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution of Fishes Laboratory

Journal articles

• Heinrich D, Dhellemmes F, Brown C & Huveneers C (2023). No evidence of time-place learning in juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris). Animal Behaviour
• Peele EE, Yopak KE, Brown C, Huveneers C, Gervais CR, Kinsey ST (2023). Intraspecific variation in muscle growth of two distinct populations of Port Jackson sharks under projected end-of-century temperatures. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 283, 111467
• Kamstra K, Van Der Burg C, Questermous H, Muncaster S, Todd E, Jasoni C, Brown, C. & Gemmel N (2023). Neuroanatomy of a Sex Changing Fish: The New Zealand Spotty Wrasse (Notolabrus celidotus) Brain Atlas New Zealand Journal of Zoology
• Pini-Fitzsimmons, J,Raoult V, Gaston T, Knott NA & Brown, C. (2023) .Diving into the diet of provisioned smooth stingrays using Stable Isotope Analysis. Journal of Fish Biology 102, 1206-1218
• Udyawer, V... Brown, C. et al (2023) Scaling of activity space in marine organisms across latitudinal gradients. American Naturalist 201 (4), 586-602.
• Pini-Fitzsimmons, J, Knott NA & Brown, C. (2023) Recreational fishery discard practices influence use of tidal estuary by large marine mesopredator. Marine and Freshwater Research 74, 330-334.
• Bass, N, Hussey, N & Brown, C. (2023) Using stable isotopes analysis and acoustic telemetry data to infer broad-scale migration patterns of Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni). Marine and Freshwater Research 74, 387-397.
• Brown, C. & Schlussel VA (2023) Smart Sharks: A review of chondrichthyan cognition. Animal Cognition 26, 175-188.
• Brown, C. (2022) Sentience politics: A fishy perspective. Animal Sentience 2022.406
• Perryman RJY, Mourier J, Venables, Tapilatu, Setyawan & Brown, C. (2022) Reef manta ray social dynamics depend on individual differences in movements and site fidelity. Animal Behaviour 191, 43-55.
• Heinrich DDU, Huveneers C, Houslay TM, Dhellemmes F & Brown C. (2022) Shark habituation to a food-related olfactory cue. Animal Behaviour 187, 147-165.
• Jacoby, DMP, Brown, C, Croft, DP, Mann, J & Mourier, J (2022) Editorial: Sociality in the marine environment. Frontiers in Marine Science, 863595.
• Penry-Williams, IL, Brown, C & Ioannou, CC (2022) Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 76, 25.
• Brown C & Byrnes E (2022) Small-scale movement and migration cues of Australian bass (Percalates novemaculeata) in an urbanized river. Marine and Freshwater Research 73, 742-753.
• Bass, N.C., Day, J., Guttridge, T., Knott, N.A. & Brown, C. (2021) Preliminary observations on the movement ecology of a crested horn shark (Heterodontus galeatus). Journal of Fish Biology 100, 582-585
• Bass, N.C., Day, J., Guttridge, T., Knott, N.A., Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2021) Residency and movement patterns of adult Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) at a breeding aggregation site. Journal of Fish Biology 99, 1455-1466
• Pini-Fitzsimmons, J., Knott, N. & Brown, C. (2021) Heterarchy reveals social organization of a smooth stingray (Bathytoshia brevicaudata) population in a food context. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 (466)
• Forsatkar MN, Hhoei AJ, Heibatian M, Rezaei K, and Brown, C. (2021) Impact of 17α-Ethynylestradiol increase on post-spawning mortality in the female Siamese fighting fish. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 232, 244.
• Bass, N.C., Day, J., Guttridge, T., Knott, N.A., Brown, C. (2021) Intraspecific variation in diel patterns of rocky reef use suggests temporal partitioning in Port Jackson sharks. Marine and Freshwater Research, accepted
• Salena, MG., Turko, AJ., Singh, A., Pathak, A., Hughes, E., Brown C & Balshine, S. (2021) Understanding fish cognition: a review and appraisal of current practices. Animal Cognition 24, 395-406.
• Berlinghieri, F., Panizzon, P., Penry-Williams, I.L. & Brown, C. (2021) Laterality and fish welfare – A Review. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 236, 105239
• Perryman, RJY. Carpenter, M., Lie, E., Sofronov, G., Marshall, AD. & Brown, C. (2021) Reef manta ray cephalic lobe movements are modulated during social interactions Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 75, 51
• Kadar JP , Ladds MA, Day J, Lyall B & Brown C (2020) Assessment of machine learning models to identify Port Jackson shark behaviours using tri-axial accelerometers. Sensors 20, 7096.
• Gervais, C. , Nay, T. & Brown, C. (2020) Friend or foe? Development of odour detection, differentiation, and anti-predator response in an embryonic elasmobranch. Marine and Freshwater Research72, 942-949.
• Heinrich, D.D.U. , Dhellemmes, F., Guttridge, T., Smukall, M., Brown, C., Rummer, J.C., Huveneers, C., (2020) Short-term impacts of daily feeding on the residency, distribution and energy expenditure of sharks. Animal Behaviour 172, 55-71.
• Gervais, C. , Huveneers, C., Brown, C. (2020) Population variation in the thermal response to climate change reveals differing sensitivity in a benthic shark. Global Change Biology 27, 108-120.
• Brown, C. 2020 Convergent evolution of sentience? Animal Sentience 5 (29), 25
• Lintermans et al 2020 Big trouble for little fish: Identifying Australian freshwater fishes in iminent risk of extinction. Pacific Conservation Biology 26, 365-377.
• Carbia, P.S. Raoult, V., Williamson, J., Park, J., Brown, C. Gaston, T. (2020) Seasonal and developmental diet shifts in sympatric and allopatric intertidal gobies determined by stomach content and stable isotope analysis. Journal of Fish Biology 97, 1051-1062.
• Heinrich, DDU, Vila Pouca, C, Brown, C. & Huveneers, C. (2020) Effects of reward magnitude and training frequency on the learning rates and memory retention of the Port Jackson shark, Heterodotus portusjacksoni. Animal Cognition 23, 939-949.
• Roche, D... Brown, C. , et al (2020) Replication alert: behavioural lateralisation in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes. Animal Behaviour 167, 55-64.
• Carbia, PS & Brown, C (2020) Seasonal variation of sexually dimorphic spatial learning implicates mating systems in the intertidal Cocos frillgoby (Bathygobius cocosensis). Animal Cognition 23, 621-628.
• Vila Pouca, C, Heinrich, D, Huveneers, C & Brown C (2020). Social learning in solitary juvenile sharks. Animal Behaviour 159, 21-27.
• Hedayatirad, M, Miryaghefi, A., Nematollahi, MA, Forsatkar, MN, Brown C (2020) Transgenerational disrupting impacts of atrazine in zebrafish: beneficial effects of dietary spirulina. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C. 230, 108685.
• Dorey, C, & Brown C (2019) Pain and emotion in fishes- Fish welfare implications for fisheries and aquaculture. Animal Studies Journal 8, 175-201.
• Perryman, RJY, Venables, SK, Tapilatu RF, Marshal AD, & Brown, C (2019). Social preferences and network structure in a population of reef manta rays. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73; 114.
• Griffin, AS, Brown, C, et al (2019) A large-scale automated radio telemetry network for monitoring movements of terrestrial wildlife in Australia. Australian Zoologist 40, 379-391
• Khoei, AJ, Forsatkar, MN & Brown, C (2019) Behavioural and immunotoxic effects of Prograf (tacrolimus) in the male Siamese fighting fish. Ecotoxicology 28, 1032-1037.
• Kadar, J, Ladds, M, Mourier, J, Day, J & Brown, C (2019) Acoustic accelerometry reveals diel activity patterns in pre-migratory Port Jackson sharks. Ecology and Evolution 9, 8933-8944.
• Vila Pouca, C, Gervais, C, Reed J, Michard, J & Brown C (2019) Quantity discrimination in Port Jackson sharks incubated under elevated temperatures. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 73,93.
• Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2019) Lack of social preference between unfamiliar and familiar juvenile Port Jackson sharks Heterodontus portusjacksoni. Journal of Fish Biology
• Gatto, E., Agrillo, C., Brown, C. & Dadda M. (2019) Individual differences in numerical skills are influenced by brain lateralization in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Intelligence 74, 12-17
• Clark, J., Brown, C., Gillings, M., Gardner, M., Williamson, J., Izzo, C. & Day J. (2019) Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Port Jackson Shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer, 1793). Marine Biodiversity 49 (1), 505-508
• Day, J., Clark, J., Williamson, J., Brown, C. & Gillings, M. (2019) Population genetic analyses reveal female reproductive philopatry in the oviparous Port Jackson shark. Marine and Freshwater Research 70, 986-994
• Carbia, P.S. & Brown, C. (2019) Environmental enrichment influences spatial learning ability in captive-reared intertidal gobies (Bathygobius cocosensis). Animal cognition, 22(1), 89–98
• Moy, K., Unmack, P., Lintermans, M., Duncan, R. & Brown, C. (2019) Barriers to hybridisation and their conservation implications for a highly threatened Australian fish species. Ethology, 125(3), 142-152
• O’Neill, S., Williamson, J., Tosetto, L. & Brown, C. (2018) Effects of acclimatisation on behavioural repeatability in two behaviour assays of the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72 (10), 166
• Pini-Fitzsimmons, J., Knott, N. & Brown, C. (2018) Effects of food provisioning on site use in the short-tail stingray Bathytoshia brevicaudata. Marine Ecology Progress Series 600, 99-110
• Vila Pouca, C., Gervais, C., Reed, J. & Brown, C. (2018) Incubation under climate warming affects behavioral lateralisation in Port Jackson sharks. Symmetry 10 (6), 184
• Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2017) Food approach conditioning and discrimination learning using sound cues in benthic sharks. Animal cognition, 1-12
• Sneddon, L., Wolfenden, D. & Brown, C. (2017) Ample evidence for fish sentience and pain. Animal Sentience, 3(21), 17
• Sneddon, L., Lopez-Luna, J., [...], & Brown, C. (2018) Fish sentience denial: Muddying the waters. Animal Sentience, 3(21), 115
• Mourier, J., Bass, N., Guttridge, T., Day, J. & Brown, C. (2017) Does detection range matter for inferring social networks in a benthic shark using acoustic telemetry? Royal Society open science 4(9), 170485
• Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2017) Contemporary topics in fish cognition and behaviour. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 16, 46-52
• HedayatiRad, M., Nematollahi, M.A., Forsatkar, M.N. & Brown, C. (2017) Prozac impacts lateralization of aggression in male Siamese fighting fish. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 140, 84-88
• Raoult, V., Trompf, L., Williamson, J.E. & Brown C. (2017) Stress profile influences learning approach in a marine fish. PeerJ 5, e3445
• Mourier, J., Brown, C. & Planes, S. (2017) Learning and robustness to catch-and-release fishing in a shark social network. Biology letters, 13(3)
• Jerry, M. & Brown, C. (2017) Fitness Costs of Sexual Harassment – The Price of Persuasion. Ethology 123, 1-9
• Tosetto, L., Williamson, J. & Brown, C. (2017) Trophic transfer of microplastics does not affect fish personality. Animal behaviour 123, 159-167
• Unmack, P.J., Martin, K., Hammer, M.P., Ebner, B., Moy, K. (2016) Malanda Gold: the tale of a unique rainbowfish from the Atherton Table-lands, now on the verge of extinction Journal of the Australia New Guinea Fishes Association
• Tosetto, L., Williamson, J. & Brown, C. (2016) Microplastics on beaches: ingestion and behavioural consequences for beachhoppers. Marine Biology 163(10), 163-199
• Bass, N.C., Mourier, J., Knott, N.A., Day, J., Brown, C. & Guttridge, T. (2016) Long-term migration patterns and bisexual philopatry in a benthic shark species. Marine and Freshwater Research 68, 1414-1421.
• Byrnes, E., Vila Pouca, C., Chambers, S. & Brown, C. (2016) Into the wild: developing field tests to examine the link between elasmobranch personality and laterality. Behaviour
• Byrnes, E., Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2016) Laterality strength is linked to stress reactivity in Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni). Behavioural Brain Research 305, 239–246
• Byrnes, E. & Brown, C. (2016) Individual personality differences in Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni). Journal of Fish Biology 89(2)
• Forsatkar, M., Nematollahi, M., Brown, C. (2016) The toxicological effect of Ruta graveolens extract in Siamese fighting fish: a behavioral and histopathological approach. Ecotoxicology 25(4), 824-834
• Brown, C. (2016) Fish pain: An inconvenient truth. Animal Sentience, 2016.058.
• Brown, C. (2016) Comparative evolutionary approach to pain perception in fishes. Animal Sentience, 2016.011.
• Dadda, M., Agrillo, C., Bisazza, A. & Brown C. (2015) Laterality enhances numerical skills in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience 9, pp
• Griffiths, S.C. & Brown, C. (2015) Social learning: Parents may not always know best. Current Biology 25, 802-804.
• White, G.E. & Brown, C. (2015) Microhabitat use affects goby (Gobiidae) cue use in a spatial learning task. Journal of Fish Biology 86, 1035-1318.
• Brown, C. & Morgan, J. (2015) Predator recognition and responses in the endangered Macquarie perch (Macquaria australiasica). Marine and Freshwater Research 66, 127-134.
• White, G.E. & Brown, C. (2015) Variation in brain morphology in intertidal gobies: A comparison of methodologies used to quantitatively assess brain volumes in fishes. Brain Behaviour and Evolution 85, 246-257.
• White, G.E. & Brown, C. (2015) Microhabitat use affects brain size and structure in intertidal gobies. Brain Behaviour and Evolution 85, 246-257
• White, G.E. & Brown, C. (2015) Cue choice and spatial learning ability are affected by habitat complexity in intertidal gobies. Behavioural Ecology 26, 178-184.
• Brown, C. (2015) Fish inteligence, sentience and ethics. Animal Cognition 18, 1-17
• White, G.E., Hose, G.C. & Brown, C. (2015) Influence of rock-pool characteristics on the distribution and abundance of inter-tidal fishes. Marine Ecology.

Books

• Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. (2011). Fish Cognition and Behaviour, 2nd Edition Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge, UK.
• Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. (2006). Fish Cognition and Behaviour, Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Brown, C., Laland, K. & Krause J. (2003). Learning and Memory in Fishes: Why fish are smarter than you think. Blackwell Scientific, London. Special Edition on Learning in Fishes. Fish and Fisheries Volume 4 No.3 2003.

Book chapters

• Brown, C (2023) Fishes: From social learning to culture. In: The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford Univerisity Press
• Watson, MJ, Doyle, KE & Brown, C (2022) Crustaceans In: Smith B, Waudby HP, Alberthsen CA, Hampton, JO Eds). Wildlife research in Australia: a practical guide. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, Australia.
• Kadar, JP, Vila-Pouca, C, Perryman, R, Pini-Fitzsimmons, J, Chambers, S, Gervais, C & Brown C. (2022) Behaviour. In: S. Midway, C. Hasler, and P. Chakrabarty, editors. Methods for fish biology, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
• Vila-Pouca, C, Tosetto, L & Brown, C (2020) A fish memory tale: memory and recall in fish and sharks. In: Handbook of Animal Cognition
• Sneddon L & Brown C (2019) Mental capacities of fishes. In: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals (LSM Johnson et al. eds), pp 53-71. Springer.
• Brown, C., Wolfenden, D. & Sneddon, L. (2018). Goldfish (Carassius auratus). In: Companion Animal Care and Welfare: The UFAW Companion Animal Handbook pp 467-478.
• Vila Pouca, C. & Brown, C. (2018). Fish – How to Ask Them the Right Questions. In: Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition: A Comparative Guide (N. Bueno-Guerra & F. Amici eds). Cambridge University Press pp 199-220.
• Bibost, A-L, Kydd, E & Brown, C. (2013) The effect of sex and early environment on the lateralization of the rainbowfish Melanotaenia duboulayi. In: Behavioural Lateralization in Vertebrates: Two sides of a same coin. (Scermely, D. & Regolin, L. eds); pp. 9–24 Springer.
• Brown, C. , Laland K. & Krause, J. (2011) Fish cognition and behaviour. In: Fish Cognition and Behaviour 2nd Edition (Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. eds). Wiley- Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Brown, C. & Laland K. (2011) Social learning in fishes. In: Fish Cognition and Behaviour 2nd Edition (Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. eds). Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Bisazza, A, & Brown, C. (2011) Laterality of Cognitive functions in fishes. In: Fish Cognition and Behaviour 2nd Edition (Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. eds). Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Budaev, SV, & Brown, C. (2011) Personality traits and behaviour. In: Fish Cognition and Behaviour 2nd Edition (Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. Eds). Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Brown, C. (2011). Experience and learning in changing environments. In: Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Mechanisms and Consequences (B. Wong & U. Candolin eds) pp 46-62, Oxford University Press, UK.
• Kelley, J. & Brown, C. (2011). Predation risk and decision making in poeciliid prey. In: Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes. University of Chicago Press pp 174-184.