This remarkable behavior was discovered just a few months ago; a black-marble jawfish (Stalix cf. histrio) following and mimicking a mimic octopus in one of my all-time favorite places at the center of marine biodiversity: the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.
An outstanding find which shows just how much marine life has yet to teach us….
Here’s the journal article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00338-011-0855-y/
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