311: Cleaner Wrasse
Ellen comes clean about the bluestreak cleaner wrasse. We discuss trust, cheating, fish patriarchy, manipulation, deception, game theory, the prisoner's dilemma, marketing, the mirror test, the horrors of self-awareness, and so much more. Christian drinks a Capri-Sun.Β Works Cited:βTesting the Low-density Hypothesis for Reversed Sex Change in Polygynous Fish: Experiments in Labroides dimidiatusβ - Tetsuo Kuwamura et al., Scientific Reports, March 2014βPunishment and partner switching cause cooperative behavior in a cleaning mutualismβ - Redouan Bshary & Alexandra Grutter, Biology Letters, July 2005βPower and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualismβ - Simon Gingins et al., Proc. Biol. Sci., June 2013βMale cleaner wrasses adjust punishment of female partners according to the stakesβ by Nichola J Raihani et al., Proc. Biol. Sci., June 2011βCleaner fish are sensitive to what their partners can and cannot seeβ - Katherine McAuliffe et al., Communications Biology, Sep 2021βBiting cleaner fish use altruism to deceive image-scoring client reef fishβ by Redouan Bshary et al., Proc. Biol. Sci., Feb 2002βIf a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and selfawareness testing in animals?β - Masanori Kohda et al., PLOS Biol, Feb 2019βFurther evidence for the capacity of mirror self-recognition in cleaner fish and the significance of ecologically relevant marksβ - Masanori Kohda et al., PLOS Biol., Feb 2022βCleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humansβ - Masanori Kohda et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Feb 2023βCleaner fish with mirror self-recognition capacity precisely realize their body size based on their mental imageβ - Taiga Kobayashi et al., Scientific Reports, Sep 2024βThe false cleanerfish relies on aggressive mimicry to bite fish fins when benthic foods are scarce in their local habitatβ - Misaki Fujisawa et al., Scientific Reports, May 2020Links:For more information about us & our podcast, head over to our website!Follow Just the Zoo of Us onΒ BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram & Discord!Follow Ellen on BlueSky!
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