Stuff we've learnt, Think like a fish- fishing techniques

Niko Tinbergen, supernormal stimuli and what we can learn as fishermen…

During the 1950s the dutch biologist Niko Tindbergen came up with the idea of supernormal stimuli. What his work showed was that male sticklebacks would preferentially attack a redder wooden stickleback model over real fish. That herring gull chicks would preferentially beg to a redder, more cartoon like beak over a realistic representation. That male butterflies would preferentially mate with…

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