Study suggests spawning at birth location boosts pike offspring success
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Individuals face the dilemma of whether to stay at home or to move and seek their fortune elsewhere. It is common in nature that animals return and reproduce at the place of birth, but the reasons for such homing behavior are often obscure. A study of pike in the Baltic Sea coastal areas of Sweden reveals that if individuals spawn at the same place they were born, their offspring have a better start in life.