Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon Investigations into the Me
Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind How does a scientist go about the task of pushing back the curtains of the unknown? Certainly the romance of tackling the mysteries of nature provides the motivation, for who would not be inspired by the remarkable lif
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Coordinating Editor: D. S. Farner Editors: B. Heinrich K. Johansen H. Langer G. Neuweiler D.l Randall
A.D. Hasler· A.T. Scholz
Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon Investigations into the Mechanism of the Imprinting Process In Collaboration with R.W Goy
With 25 Figures
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo 1983
Prof. ARTHUR D. HASLER University of Wisconsin Center for Limnologie Madison, WI 53706, USA Prof. ALLAN T. SCHOLZ Eastern Washington University Department of Biology Cheney, WA 99004, USA
The cover illustration shows a morpholine molecule associated with outside nose nerve and thyroxine molecule associated with brain.
ISBN-13 :978-3-642-82072-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-82070-0
e- ISBN-13 :978-3-642-82070-0
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Hasler, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1908-. Olfactory imprinting and homing in salmon. (Zoophysiology; v.14). Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Salmon - Homing. 2. Imprinting (Psychology). 3. Odors. 4. Smell. 5. Fishes Homing. I. Scholz, A.T. (Allan T.), 1948-. II. Title. III. Series. QL638.S2H26. 1983. 597'.55. 83·12467. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munich.
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Dedicated to the enthusiastic, hardworking and innovative graduate students, staff and faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Center for Limnology, who collaborated in these studies. A.D.H. and Dedicated to my parents. A.T.S.
Contents
Foreword
Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind A. D. HASLER . . . . . . . . Historical Perspective. A. T. SCHOLZ . .
. XI . XIV
Part I Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon. A. D. HASLER and A. T. SCHOLZ
1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Notes on the Life History of Coho Salmon The Magic Journey: Migration of Salmon . Homing . ". . . . . . . . Functions of Homing . . . Life History of Coho Salmon 1.4.1 Alevin Stage . . . . . 1.4.2 Fry and Fingerling Stages 1.4.3 Transformation from Parr to Smolt 1.4.4 Ocean Life: Migration to the Spawning Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Evidence for Imprinting: Transplantation Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5.1 Transplantation Before or During the Smolt Stage . . . . . . . 1.5.2 Transplantation After Smolt Transformation. . . . . . 1.5.3 Transportation of Smolts 1.5.4 Coincidence of Imprinting and Smolt Transformation. . . . . . . . . . 1.5.5 Stocking of
