Researchers have discovered that some social fish have the social awareness required to recognize themselves and other fish they know, by their faces, in pictures, a first for non-human animals ...

Researchers have addressed various criticisms and shown the fish L. dimidiatus to indeed have Mirror Self-Recognition, suggesting that either self-awareness in animals or the validity of the ...

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.

Bluestriped fangblenny (fish) -> Bluestreak cleaner wrasse The bluestriped fangblenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhyncos) has evolved to look and act just like a bluestreak cleaner wrasse. Why?

A new study published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences has shown that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) recognize themselves in photographs (Kohda et al., 2023).