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

A finger-length fish has reignited a long-running debate about self-awareness, cognition and how much we’ve underestimated ...
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 ...
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 ...
Phys.org

News on cleaner fish

How can we save wild salmon from extinction, and at the same time ensure farmed salmon a life free from lice and other suffering? Research uncovers critical challenges related to management, fish ...
The Atlantic

The Fish That Makes Other Fish Smarter

It’s not easy for fish to clean themselves, without limbs or digits to scrub those hard-to-reach places. Fortunately for them, coral reefs come with cleaning stations. At particular sites, an itchy ...
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 ...
Discover Magazine

Can Fish Recognize Themselves? These Cleaner Wrasses Passed the Mirror Test

Mirror tests are used to assess an animal’s response to its reflection. Explore how fish react and learn if they possess self-awareness. In February, a team of researchers published a paper showing ...