Saturday, November 15, 2025

Cleaner fish precisely realize their body size

Mirror, mirror, in my tank, who’s the biggest fish of all?

According to an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research group, a bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than themselves. The team reported that the cleaner wrasse could identify photographs of itself as itself, based on its face through mirror self-recognition.

 

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