[Coral-List] cleaner shrimp

[Douglas Fenner]

How do fish-cleaning shrimp avoid becoming meals?  They do a little dance

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/how-do-fish-cleaning-shrimp-avoid-becoming-meals-they-do-little-dance?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-09-20&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2996893


It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it and not get eaten

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/cleaner-shrimp.html

 The cleaner shrimp *Lysmata amoinensis* adjusts its behaviour towards
predatory versus non-predatory clients.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0534

Cheers,  Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science

A call to climate action  (Science editorial)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/807?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-05-30&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2840296

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change