Caribbean Cleaning Gobies Prefer Client Ectoparasites Over Mucus
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Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: support for partner control mechanisms in cleaning interactions.
Recent studies on cleaning behaviour suggest that there are conflicts between cleaners and their clients over what cleaners eat. The diet of cleaners usually contains ectoparasites and some client tissue. It is unclear, however, whether cleaners prefer client tissue over ectoparasites or whether they include client tissue in their diet only when searching for parasites alone is not profitable. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0179-1613
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01838.x