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: ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Before squaring up for a fight, some fish check themselves out in the ...

Cleaner wrasse quickly learn to recognize themselves in mirrors, and take advantage of the information their reflection provides. They also experiment with the mirror in a way we might call playful, ...

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have discovered a previously undiscovered behavior in cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus). When presented with a mirror, the tiny fish not only ...

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A shrimp scrap drifted down the face of a mirror, and a small reef fish tracked it like it was watching a slow-motion experiment. The fish, a blue-streak cleaner wrasse, had carried the shrimp upward, ...