Why You Can't Catch Any: Fish Are As Smart As Chimpanzees
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
Coral trout are fast when chasing prey above the reefs of their habitat, but can't pursue their quarry if it buries itself into a hard-to-reach reef crevice - so they instead team up with a snake-like moray eel to flush out the unfortunate fish, which is a remarkable piece of interspecies collaboration: either the eel takes the prey in the reef, or scares it back into the open so the trout can pounce. read more