Cleaner fish are sensitive to what their partners can and cannot see

McAuliffe et al. demonstrate that in the context of cooperative cleaning, wild-caught female cleaner wrasse are more likely to cheat when their partners are out of view. This provides evidence that cleaner wrasse possess a building block of theory of mind: sensitivity to what others can and cannot s...

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Main Authors: Katherine McAuliffe, Lindsey A. Drayton, Amanda Royka, Mélisande Aellen, Laurie R. Santos, Redouan Bshary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02584-2