Before squaring up for a fight, some fish check themselves out in the mirror to make sure they're big enough. This strange behavior was seen in bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), who ...

If you're not really into salt-water tanks or don't spend a lot of time in coral reefs, there's still a high probability you may have heard of the bluestreak cleaner wrasse fish. Likely because last ...

Very few animals are known to recognise themselves in the mirror, but scientists believe a small tropical fish may possess a more sophisticated type of self-awareness only ever seen in humans.

A newly updated study has found that the blue streak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, may be capable of recognizing themselves in reflections and photos based on mental self-images. Researchers ...

Before deciding whether or not to fight another fish, cleaner wrasse check their own reflection in a mirror and size themselves up. First, Taiga Kobayashi at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan and ...

New findings suggest bluestreak cleaner wrasse understand how their body size stacks up against a rival Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Bluestreak cleaner wrasse are small, territorial fish that ...

A bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) swims in a tank at right, with its mirror image at left. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has ...

What if that proverbial man in the mirror was a fish? Would it change its ways? According to an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research group, yes, it would. In what the researchers say in ...

Scientists often warn against anthropomorphism — the attribution of human characteristics to animals or even nonliving things. But it’s hard to resist the charm of Labroides dimidiatus, a species of ...

Cleaner wrasse perform a cleaning service for coral reef fish -- namely eating parasites off their customer's skin. However, what the females of some species actually want is to lure in clients and ...