Face your fears: cleaning gobies inspect predators despite being stressed by them.

social stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., "fight or flight") or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide...

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Main Authors: Marta C Soares, Redouan Bshary, Sónia C Cardoso, Isabelle M Côté, Rui F Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22802925/?tool=EBI