A small tropical fish may possess a sophisticated type of self-awareness only ever seen in humans, scientists have said. Researchers have discovered that the bluestreak cleaner wrasse – which ...

Now, in a study published on September 30 in Communications Biology, researchers have found that fish known as cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) also behave differently when watched. Females were ...

Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an ...

Nathan Blakely was a popstar, but he died and was reincarnated - as a Cleaner Wrasse. Series 3 of the comedy with Daniel Rigby, Ashley McGuire, Hammed Animashaun and Hugh Dennis. Show more Nathan ...

The yellow tang (top) and Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (bottom) are among Hawaii’s diverse families of reef fish, many of which have connections to Hawaii’s culture and past. — Maui Ocean Center ...

The researchers documented the behavior of the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), a coral reef species famous for its symbiotic grooming—it eats parasites residing on other fish—in front of its ...

For the experiment, the team used bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a species measuring more than 10 centimeters long that inhabits waters off Wakayama Prefecture and the southwestern Nansei Islands.

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species. An interdisciplinary team involving the biologist Eduardo Sampaio from the University of Konstanz explores the cognitive ...