Image scoring and cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism

A Nature study of image scoring in a cleaner fish mutualism. The companion cites its finding that cleaner fish cooperate more when clients watch. It is the biological example for level 4 of the observer-modeling ladder (Table 2), inferring the observer's criterion or purpose, which bears on the reactive phenotype (P9).

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion Table 2)

Used for

P9Table 2 (level 4); P9

Strand

Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions · Parasitism, mutualism & cheating

Cite

@article{bshary2006image,
  title = {Image scoring and cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism},
  author = {Redouan Bshary and Alexandra S. Grutter},
  year = {2006},
  journal = {Nature},
  doi = {10.1038/nature04755},
}