Collective Memory
This note is about the concept of collective memory, for example the importance of older animals for group knowledge.
References
General
Kopf, R. Keller, Sam Banks, Lauren J. N. Brent, Paul Humphries, Chris J. Jolly, Phyllis C. Lee, Osmar J. Luiz, Dale Nimmo, and Kirk O. Winemiller. “Loss of Earth’s Old, Wise, and Large Animals.” Science 387, no. 6729 (2024): eado2705. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado2705.
Fish
Slotte, Aril, Are Salthaug, Sindre Vatnehol, Espen Johnsen, Erik Askov Mousing, Åge Høines, Cecilie Thorsen Broms, et al. “Herring Spawned Poleward Following Fishery-Induced Collective Memory Loss.” Nature 642, no. 8069 (June 2025): 965–72. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08983-3.
Wilson, James A., Jarl Giske, and Culum Brown. “Overfishing Social Fish.” Fish and Fisheries 26, no. 2 (2025): 278–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12880.
De Luca, Giancarlo, Patrizio Mariani, Brian R. MacKenzie, and Matteo Marsili. “Fishing out Collective Memory of Migratory Schools.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11, no. 95 (2014): 20140043. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0043.
Brown, Culum, and Michael Webster. “Fishy Culture in a Changing World.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 380, no. 1925 (2025): 20240130. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0130.
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