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 ...

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced ...

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: ...

Reef ecology Baby damselfish do better on coral reefs that are inhabited by other fish that keep them free of parasites, a new study has found. The findings are published today in the Royal Society ...

The intricate relationships between cleaner fish and cleaner shrimp underpin some of the most compelling examples of mutualism in coral reef ecosystems. These interactions involve smaller organisms ...

'Antisocial' damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers -- and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown. Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt 'cleaning services' vital to the health ...

Learn how cleaner wrasse used a mirror and even dropped food to test their reflections, a behavior linked mostly to mammals. A small reef fish may be doing something scientists once thought was ...