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Study suggests cleaner wrasse fish know when they are being watched

Cleaner wrasse fish, the tiny reef dwellers that pick parasites off larger clients, behave more cooperatively when a potential customer is watching, according to experimental evidence published in ...

Scientists Thought Only Great Apes Were This Smart, But a Tiny Fish Proved Them Wrong

For decades, scientists used a mirror experiment to explore whether animals could recognize themselves. In that test, ...
Yahoo

Cleaner fish display intelligence and self-awareness — just like mammals

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleaner wrasse quickly scraped off a mirror-only mark, then used shrimp scraps to probe mirror space, researchers report. (CREDIT: ...
IFLScience

Cleaner Fish Easily Recognize Their Own Faces, New Research Finds

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...
Newsweek

Some Fish Check Their Size vs Their Opponent in the Mirror Before a Fight

Before squaring up for a fight, some fish check themselves out in the mirror to make sure they're big enough. This strange behavior was seen in bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), who ...
Forbes

Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For decades, self-awareness has been guarded as a very ...
Forbes

‘Cleaner Fish’ Gobble Up Parasites To Make Salmon Farming More Sustainable

Sea lice attached to the skin of a wild salmon. Salmon farms have been plagued by parasitic sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) since they were first established in Norway in the 1960s. The small ...