Researchers have demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) checked their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than ...

If you're not really into salt-water tanks or don't spend a lot of time in coral reefs, there's still a high probability you may have heard of the bluestreak cleaner wrasse fish. Likely because last ...

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 ...

Before deciding whether or not to fight another fish, cleaner wrasse check their own reflection in a mirror and size themselves up. First, Taiga Kobayashi at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan and ...

A bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) swims in a tank at right, with its mirror image at left. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has ...

New findings suggest bluestreak cleaner wrasse understand how their body size stacks up against a rival Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Bluestreak cleaner wrasse are small, territorial fish that ...

An experiment with threadfin butterflyfish finds that these fish may experience pleasure while being cleaned by bluestreak cleaner wrasse —... We tend to credit animals like cats and dogs with a ...

Scientists often warn against anthropomorphism — the attribution of human characteristics to animals or even nonliving things. But it’s hard to resist the charm of Labroides dimidiatus, a species of ...

What if that proverbial man in the mirror was a fish? Would it change its ways? According to an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research group, yes, it would. In what the researchers say in ...