Reputation management promotes strategic adjustment of service quality in cleaner wrasse

Abstract Adjusting one’s behaviour in response to eavesdropping bystanders is considered a sophisticated social strategy, yet the underlying mechanisms are not well studied. Cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, cooperate by eating ectoparasites off “client” fishes, or cheat (i.e. bite) and eat clie...

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Main Authors: Sandra A. Binning, Olivia Rey, Sharon Wismer, Zegni Triki, Gaétan Glauser, Marta C. Soares, Redouan Bshary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07128-5