Lionfish found to use flared fin display to instigate cooperative hunting

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers working in Australia has found that lionfish use their fins to communicate with other lionfish as a means to instigate cooperative hunting. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Oona Lönnstedt, Maud Ferrari and Douglas Chivers describe observations they made undersea around the Great Barrier Reef and in their lab.

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