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Felicity Anne Huntingford FRSE (born 17 June 1948) is an aquatic ecologist known for her work in fish behaviour. In addition to her own contributions, she is also a prolific referee for renown scholarly journals like Animal Behaviour, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Physiology & Behavior, American Naturalist and Behavioral Ecology.

Educational Background
Huntingford received her undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Oxford studying zoology. After completing her master's degree in 1970, she decided to pursue a PhD in ethology at Oxford, and following her doctorate in 1974, she was offered a position teaching at the University of Glasgow where she remains to this day.

Research Contributions
Huntingford's experiments pertaining to behavioral diversity among stickleback fishes have yielded findings such as the linkage between the intensity of aggressive behavioral responses to territorial intruders and predators across individual three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatu). The data from this particular experiment provided the first empirical evidence for a widely speculated notion within the field of ethology that inter- and intraspecific aggressiveness share similar motivating factors across a variety of taxa.

Her examination of divergent behaviors developing in domesticated salmonids provided argument for these differences emerging from both evolution and captive conditions and consideration of the impact that these domesticated behavioral adaptations have within a natural context. The impact of rearing conditions on the feeding, antipredator responses, aggression and reproductive behavior of cultured fishes remains especially important for considering the well-being of species where individuals within the aquaculture niche continue to dwarf wild populations.

She is also credited with contributing to a widely cited model of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L) developmental pathways that explains the variation present in salmonid life-history pathways by considering both the phenotypic plasticity and the timing of life stage changes determined by environmental opportunity. This model of salmonid life-history variation was distinguished from prior models based on attributing fitness to individuals at the completion of a given developmental phase by taking into account the mechanisms these animals use to achieve their particular developmental pathway.