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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-09-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02584-2 |