Cleaning behavior is found in all tropical reef communities. The cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, is one of the many organisms that display this behavior. The cleaning stations, which were ...

The cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus often touches 'client' reef fish dorsal fin areas with its pelvic and pectoral fins. The relative spatial positions of cleaner and client remain constant and ...

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Researchers address criticisms to previous work by providing additional evidence to suggest the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus has Mirror Self-Recognition. Mirror Self-Recognition (MSR) is seen as ...

A newly updated study has found that the blue streak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, may be capable of recognizing themselves in reflections and photos based on mental self-images. Researchers ...

Mirror Self-Recognition (MSR) is seen as evidence for self-awareness and passing the mark test, in which animals touch or scrape a mark placed on their body in a location that can only be indirectly ...

A species of fish, the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test—a method held as the gold standard for ...

The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining self ...

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 ...