A shrimp scrap drifted down the face of a mirror, and a small reef fish tracked it like it was watching a slow-motion ...

Cleaner wrasse have revealed a remarkable new side of fish intelligence. Marked with fake parasites, they used mirrors to inspect and remove the spots—far faster than seen in earlier tests. Even more ...

In theory, a reaction to an out-of-place mark in a reflection is assumed to be evidence of self-recognition for other animals as well. Chimpanzees, elephants, and dolphins are just some that have ...

In the current study, the scientists observed new behaviors during a series of mirror test experiments, a widely used method for evaluating self-recognition and animal cognition. Previous research had ...

Fish introduced to a mirror began to act strangely, swimming upside-down or spreading their fins. They also tried to scrape a mark from their throats. Reading time 5 minutes New research seems to ...

The predictability of the Betta Fish’s behavior sets up an excellent experimental baseline from which to learn more about this species. In the species’ native Thailand, enthusiasts selectively breed ...

Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture conditions, are the most ...

They are one of nature's most spectacular and most mysterious spectacles — moments where hundreds if not thousands of animals, herrings, starlings, beetles, appear to move together seemingly as one ...

For centuries people have argued whether fish and animals in general are intelligent or if their behavior is instinctual. We need to separate facts from fiction and expose the truth of this ...

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: ...