Cleaner Shrimp as Seen in Human Vision (Left) and Fish Vision (Right) (VIDEO)

Duke University

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A waving cleaner shrimp as humans see it and on the right, as it might look to the reef fish, Cephalopholis miniatus. Like a guy waving a towel at traffic in front of a carwash, cleaner shrimp signal to passing fish that the cleaning station is open.

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Eleanor Caves, Duke University

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