Saturday 28 September 2019

Shrimp Avoid Becoming Meals by Intelligent Design

Image courtesy of NOAA, public domain.



Joel Kontinen

Being a eat parasites and dead skin off of fish, eels, and turtles, scrimp cleaning cleaner can be risky business, in particular when some of the clients have a taste for scrimp, they eat parasites and dead skin off of fish, eels, and turtles.

The scrimp do an intelligent design trick: they do a dance to show that they’re only serving the client.

Source:

Frederick, Eva. 2019. How do fish-cleaning shrimp avoid becoming meals? They do a little dance. Science (19 September).
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