News sources around the globe are picking up a story recently published in Nature Communication, an online, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing research in biological, physical, and chemical sciences.  Written by two researchers from Cambridge University in the UK and one from the University of Neuchatal in Switzerland, the article “Referential Gestures in Fish Collaborative Hunting,” shows that coralgrouper, giant moray eels, and Napoleon wrasse on Australian and Egyptian reefs use referential gestures between the three species to identify and track prey. While the interspecies collaborative hunting practice is in and of itself interesting, what is fascinating is that prior to this study, referential gesturing had only been attributed to the great apes and ravens. This study shows that referential gesturing is not limited to large-brained vertebrates.

 

 

Australia, Communication, eel, Egypt, fish, Fishing, Grouper

By Sid

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