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The social organization of a population of animals is the sum of the inter-individual relationships among the members of that population (Brown, 1975). An ethologist can only determine the character of these relationships by carefully observing the interactions among individual animals. All such interactions are examples of social behaviour. For the sake of convenience in discussing this complex subject I distinguish between two general aspects of social behaviour in fishes: the social units in which fishes occur, and the behavioural mechanisms underlying the relationships within and between social units.
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Keenleyside, M.H.A. (1979). Social Organization. In: Diversity and Adaptation in Fish Behaviour. Zoophysiology, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81374-0_7
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