Cordery, James
Jones, Nick A. R.
Newport, Cait
Funding for this research was provided by:
St Johns College grant (21138708)
Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship)
Schmidt Sciences (Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Article History
Received: 13 August 2025
Revised: 16 February 2026
Accepted: 4 March 2026
First Online: 14 March 2026
Declarations
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: Experiments at OXFORD were conducted under the University’s Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Board (AWERB) approval (APA/1/5/ZOO/NASPA/Newport/CoralReef2024). Experiments conducted at the Lizard Island Research Station, Australia, were under approvals from both AWERB and The University of Queensland’s Animal Ethics Committee (2022/AE000373).
: The authors declare no competing interests.