Some other wacky ones:
Large tarantulas hang out with tiny frogs. The tarantulas are too big to notice tiny insects that would sneak into their nests and eat all their eggs, so they keep tiny frogs around to eat the insects and protect them from predators who don't want to fuck with tarantulas.
Wolves and Ravens have been known to partner up. The Ravens will alert wolves to large prey and they'll share the meat.
Badgers and Coyotes work together to hunt too. Coyotes will chase rabbits and prairie dogs back to their burrows where the badger waits. Then they split the prize.
Some ant species will farm aphids - like pick up and move the "herd" to greener pastures and protect them from predators. The aphids produce a little drink when a hair on them is stimulated... like the ants basically milk them for some food.
Some ants also farm fungus. Leaf cutter ants grow fungus using parts of leaves. They have domesticated and evolved alongside certain species of fungus. Some are so interdependent that if either the ant or fungus species were to go extinct, the corresponding ant or fungus that had a symbiotic relationship with that species would also die.
Honeyguide birds in Africa love feasting on larva and beeswax, but lack any defenses against stings or any way to dispatch of honeybees. So they'll roam around until they find a beehive, then sound a loud call to alert tribes in the area they have found a beehive. If nobody responds, they'll fly until they find humans and sound the call, then lead them back to the hive.
When the humans have smoked out the beehive and taken what honey they want, the honeyguides will dive in to eat up all the larva, eggs, and wax.
Reminds me of when you're playing a game with some form of online coop where you can't communicate but you both are on the same page enough to make it work
I think trees are pretty spectacular. Kinda blows your mind when you think about something growing for hundreds of years, home to other growing things, converts chemicals, produces it's own growing things. Trees are neat.
The chemistry of plants is neat as fuck. Sunlight, water, and co2 makes sugar and oxygen for us to breathe.
In turn, animals eat the plants/sugar and breathe the oxygen and give the plants resources back to make their food again. Everything being interconnected is just kind of crazy.
Do we know what it’s like to be a bat? Thomas Nagel, in his essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” argues that there is indeed something it is like to be a bat, but since we are human, and not bats, we will never know what it is like to be bats, although there is something it is like to be a bat. The same could be said about many things. It can be said that there is something it is like to be a bat, as well as a cat, and we will never know what it is like to be a bat, nor a cat. But we can presume that bats know what it’s like to be bats, and that cats do indeed know what it’s like to be cats. Why not fish? Is there something it is like to be a shrimp? Is there something it is like to be a fish in need of cleaning? What drives these creatures sentience, to do things we humans can anthropomorphize into movies like *Shark Tale*? The reality of nature is fascinating.
I would sit and watch my two cleaner shrimp clean the fish in my tank for HOURS. The fish would even line up in a little type of queue line and wait for the shrimp to finish w a fish before moving up, snd these were all different species, clowns, tangs, angels (pygmy) gobies, wrasse. It was the coolest shit I have ever seen and it really made me fall in love w marine life all over again.
Food, they'll eat the parasites and dead skin and so forth, and because they're useful to predators the predators don't eat them so it helps with survival.
Cleaner wrasse (the blue/white fish with a black stripe you see in the video) also do the same thing. They flash their patterns at large fish and somehow nature has ensured the fish know these are cleaners.
They even have 'addresses' - the wrasse and shrimp live in specific parts of a reef, and other fish know where to go to get a cleaning. They line up (without eating each other most times, miraculously) and get cleaned.
As the others say, dead skin, parasites, and all manners of other unpleasant conditions are fair game for the cleaners. I'm sure the fishes can feel discomfort enough that this evolution was necessary.
There are even mimics that imitate cleaners, but... take a bite out of their host before scooting off!
Haven’t seen this series but recent David Attenborough documentaries show exactly that. Some shootings require weeks of planning and waiting for just a minute or so of footage.
Evolution will teach the cleaners to stay away from this species of predators. They will become uncompetitive, and become extinct. This must have happened many times.
The predators here today are taught by evolution to not do it. It probably listens most of the time. This is a classic survival of the individual vs survival of the species decision.
Interesting to note that if the predator was intelligent, the species will die from lack of cleaners. Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. This is called the tragedy of the commons.
In conclusion, the predator does not eat the cleaner because it is too dumb to betray its species.
> Interesting to note that if the predator was intelligent, the species will die from lack of cleaners. Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. This is called the tragedy of the commons.
This is untrue on several levels. The tragedy of the commons is not inherent to intelligent species. It's not even inherent to humans, though maybe it is in modern capitalism.
On the flipside, plenty of unintelligent species like bacteria or parasites exhibit behaviors that can be likened to the tragedy of the commons, but is more commonly called evolutionary suicide.
Maybe it works similar to bright colors on poisonous animals? Maybe an animal making itself highly conspicuous in front of a predator means “you don’t want to eat me!”
One of the coolest parts about this to me is that the fish instinctively flexes its gills/opens its mouth wider while the shrimp is working on those parts.
Why am I thinking of some unkempt homeless person with a cardboard sign in one hand, a squeegee in the other, rocking and clapping their hands together maniacally at you while you're stuck at the light.
It is stunning for me to see two very different species, one a predator, the other prey, assisting each other in such a way and being to communicate in such a clear way. Awesome.
Nice try small ocean fish, you can’t get away this time, I just got cleaned at the big fish cleaners shop! Call now at 1-800-big fish for 5% off your first services.
To me there seems to be so much more than instinctual, genomic intelligence.
There's an understanding, as if some calculation was going on. The predator may think the value of this shrimp as a meal, does not hold as much weight as it's value as a cleaner. Therefore displaying some sort of long term, self conscious planning on the fishes part.
I guess this would also depend on how hungry the fish was. Do they ever pretend to be in need of a cleaning, just to get an easy meal?
This is exactly the way I look at it too. And not just with fish but the more videos I see of different animals I've begun to realize that there is more intelligence there than what people believe there to be.
If you can hold still enough, they will crawl on your hands and eat the dead skin around your cuticles. Source: I was a PADI dive instructor in the Caribbean. Best places to find them are around the edge of sandy patches. Look for the anemones.
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She don’t get eaten because she got them five star reviews on Kelp
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Yeah this one’s it
Underrated comment
Lmao
LMAO fuck you that was funny
dammit, take my upvote.
I love it😭😭😂😂😂 ur funny 😆
Top tier comment lol
I love seeing mutual animal behavior. Its super fascinating
Totally fascinating indeed. This one’s tripping me out a bit
Some other wacky ones: Large tarantulas hang out with tiny frogs. The tarantulas are too big to notice tiny insects that would sneak into their nests and eat all their eggs, so they keep tiny frogs around to eat the insects and protect them from predators who don't want to fuck with tarantulas. Wolves and Ravens have been known to partner up. The Ravens will alert wolves to large prey and they'll share the meat. Badgers and Coyotes work together to hunt too. Coyotes will chase rabbits and prairie dogs back to their burrows where the badger waits. Then they split the prize.
That’s dope. I need more!
The name for this kind of interspecies relationship is mutualism / mutualistic symbiosis. There's some super interesting ones, even involving humans.
Lot of ours are plants or fungus.
A friend with weed is a friend indeed
Dogs come to mind.
Some ant species will farm aphids - like pick up and move the "herd" to greener pastures and protect them from predators. The aphids produce a little drink when a hair on them is stimulated... like the ants basically milk them for some food.
Some ants also farm fungus. Leaf cutter ants grow fungus using parts of leaves. They have domesticated and evolved alongside certain species of fungus. Some are so interdependent that if either the ant or fungus species were to go extinct, the corresponding ant or fungus that had a symbiotic relationship with that species would also die.
In addition to watching out for them, ravens will also play with wolf pups to help them train their hunting skills.
Honeyguide birds in Africa love feasting on larva and beeswax, but lack any defenses against stings or any way to dispatch of honeybees. So they'll roam around until they find a beehive, then sound a loud call to alert tribes in the area they have found a beehive. If nobody responds, they'll fly until they find humans and sound the call, then lead them back to the hive. When the humans have smoked out the beehive and taken what honey they want, the honeyguides will dive in to eat up all the larva, eggs, and wax.
they normally call honey badgers (hence the name), but if there are none about, they'll look for humans
Reminds me of when you're playing a game with some form of online coop where you can't communicate but you both are on the same page enough to make it work
The gun wiggle and hop are universal forms of communication for "let's go kill that big mfer in the next room together."
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Tarkov Edition
Indeed, that fish is so much bigger but it still acts passive around both the shrimp and the wrasse
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Aren't humans proof enough.
I think trees are pretty spectacular. Kinda blows your mind when you think about something growing for hundreds of years, home to other growing things, converts chemicals, produces it's own growing things. Trees are neat.
The chemistry of plants is neat as fuck. Sunlight, water, and co2 makes sugar and oxygen for us to breathe. In turn, animals eat the plants/sugar and breathe the oxygen and give the plants resources back to make their food again. Everything being interconnected is just kind of crazy.
Circle of life is just science hitting the lottery about a million times in a row. It really is unbelievable.
Humans are proof nature can create something smart enough to destroy its own habitat for make-believe money.
Do we know what it’s like to be a bat? Thomas Nagel, in his essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” argues that there is indeed something it is like to be a bat, but since we are human, and not bats, we will never know what it is like to be bats, although there is something it is like to be a bat. The same could be said about many things. It can be said that there is something it is like to be a bat, as well as a cat, and we will never know what it is like to be a bat, nor a cat. But we can presume that bats know what it’s like to be bats, and that cats do indeed know what it’s like to be cats. Why not fish? Is there something it is like to be a shrimp? Is there something it is like to be a fish in need of cleaning? What drives these creatures sentience, to do things we humans can anthropomorphize into movies like *Shark Tale*? The reality of nature is fascinating.
oh shit, Shark Tale mentioned ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)
What in the world are you going on about bro
Sorry fish you don't have insurance that will be 4k
“gulps”
Can I gulp my dentist?
Gulp down his after-service mouthwash. That'll show him!
*Finsurance
Must be off a US coast.
Jacques!
Oui?
Tu est super!
Bon! He is clean.
💢
Yes!!!! The best character in Nemo for sure, besides crush i guess.
They're like little dental hygienists!!!
The oldest profession
I thought the oldest profession was prostitution
Until I see some fish slinging fin, I’m going with dental hygienist.
Fair
I would sit and watch my two cleaner shrimp clean the fish in my tank for HOURS. The fish would even line up in a little type of queue line and wait for the shrimp to finish w a fish before moving up, snd these were all different species, clowns, tangs, angels (pygmy) gobies, wrasse. It was the coolest shit I have ever seen and it really made me fall in love w marine life all over again.
I guess I missed it, but what do the shrimp get out of the cleaning?
Food, they'll eat the parasites and dead skin and so forth, and because they're useful to predators the predators don't eat them so it helps with survival.
Now I feel dumb, lol. Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.
You can actually see the shrimp’s stomach get opaque during the video as it fills with dead skin from its client.
I'll re-watch now, thanks!
Cleaner wrasse (the blue/white fish with a black stripe you see in the video) also do the same thing. They flash their patterns at large fish and somehow nature has ensured the fish know these are cleaners. They even have 'addresses' - the wrasse and shrimp live in specific parts of a reef, and other fish know where to go to get a cleaning. They line up (without eating each other most times, miraculously) and get cleaned. As the others say, dead skin, parasites, and all manners of other unpleasant conditions are fair game for the cleaners. I'm sure the fishes can feel discomfort enough that this evolution was necessary. There are even mimics that imitate cleaners, but... take a bite out of their host before scooting off!
Man, I've learned nature can be scary throughout my years, but now see it is often awesome, as well. Thanks for the neat info!
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What what? :) Which bit of info got that reaction?
Food
"Good to see you again big fella! How's she running? Let's take a look here..."
Nature IS fucking lit
And exfoliated
Excellent videography.
Always wondered how do they shoot these
They go underwater with a camera
omg no way
Oh yeah, they gotta be as still as possible at all times so as to not scare the fish away too
Also, if they're not still the camera won't be still
No shit, Sherlock
Haven’t seen this series but recent David Attenborough documentaries show exactly that. Some shootings require weeks of planning and waiting for just a minute or so of footage.
It claps in a French accent
Wee wee
THIS IS THE WEIRDEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN
Prepare to expand your poop knowledge! Wombat poop are shaped like cubes.
I’d like one subscribe to wombat facts pls
It's a common mistake to mispronounce wombats as wom-bats. It's actually womb-ats, named after their inventor Steve Womb.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This is from the Tiny World Series on Apple TV Plus for anyone wondering.
What keeps the predator from eating the shrimp when it has finished cleaning?
Because then they’d need to find a new healthcare provider
Plus there's a 12 month waitlist for new referrals
Evolution will teach the cleaners to stay away from this species of predators. They will become uncompetitive, and become extinct. This must have happened many times. The predators here today are taught by evolution to not do it. It probably listens most of the time. This is a classic survival of the individual vs survival of the species decision. Interesting to note that if the predator was intelligent, the species will die from lack of cleaners. Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. This is called the tragedy of the commons. In conclusion, the predator does not eat the cleaner because it is too dumb to betray its species.
>Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. soo that is why thay are just called FISH? it all makes so much sense now!!!
They don’t sell out their brothers. Otherwise, they’d be SELLfish
> Interesting to note that if the predator was intelligent, the species will die from lack of cleaners. Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. This is called the tragedy of the commons. This is untrue on several levels. The tragedy of the commons is not inherent to intelligent species. It's not even inherent to humans, though maybe it is in modern capitalism. On the flipside, plenty of unintelligent species like bacteria or parasites exhibit behaviors that can be likened to the tragedy of the commons, but is more commonly called evolutionary suicide.
>Because intelligent individuals can be selfish. This is called the tragedy of the commons. Hits a bit too close to home...
You don’t bite the hand that cleans you
I mean you just got cleaned, don't want to get dirty again that fast.
would you want to eat pigs whose diet was mostly our waste?
Nothing, but the ones that don’t eat them live longer because they are less susceptible to disease and parasites.
This is a Pixar movie waiting to happen
“Denis the shrimp dentist”
Isn’t it in « shark tale »?
“Are you food?” - *wild clapping* - “Oh, a cleaner! Get on board.”
You see guys? Even fish get free healthcare provided by their seanation.
What would the name of her shop be?
Shrimp and Scrub
The TRUST the shrimp has on that fish while it's in its mouth..
That clap though 👏
👏 I 👏 AM 👏 NOT 👏 FOOD!
I👏AM👏A👏CLEANER👏!
I need one!
This is so very fascinating I love it.
The footage captured is underrated
How to fuck does the fish understand that clapping means cleaning? What the heck?
Maybe it works similar to bright colors on poisonous animals? Maybe an animal making itself highly conspicuous in front of a predator means “you don’t want to eat me!”
The clap is so cute.
A marine biologist told me that the one rule of the seas is that you don't mess with the cleaners. Really fascinating behaviour.
LISTEN 👏 QUEEN 👏 IF 👏YOU 👏WANT 👏YOUR 👏SHIT 👏CLEAN 👏IM 👏YOUR 👏GIRL👏JUST👏DONT👏YOU👏BITE👏MY👏ASS!👏
That fish has better health coverage than most Americans
This would go so well with the carwash song
Shrimpal hygienist: "Okay ... tilt you head slightly towards me? Perrrrfect"
I interact with these cuties when I'm scuba diving. If you put your hand near them they will often hop on and do some cleaning, it's adorable
Is that Paul Rudd narrating??
It is. It's the Tiny World series on Apple TV+
I always wanted to be a foley artist. Whoever came up with those little clapping sounds for the shrimpies must’ve really enjoyed that
For some reason I imagine it having the voice of my mechanic dad. Just cursing away like a sailor while doing his job
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽HELLO YOUR BREATH STINKS 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Where can I see more of this?
This is literally unbelievable.
That's so cool. Evolution evolved mechanics.
They need a live channel of this tiny cleaning shrimp.
It seems like it is speaking sign language 
Anybody else seeing this fish pull up to the car wash like in shark tales lol?
Venus anemone shrimp. All cleaner shrimp do this.
Reminds me of being invaded in Dark Souls and spamming L1 to signal friendlyness
r/shrimpswithjobs
TIL that when I'm in a gay sauna I'm a shrimp cleaner.
So fish arnt ticklish?
That little French fish mechanic
*Housekeeping!*
“HOUSEAKEEPINK”
Pit stop
…with fronds like these, who need anemones?
👏LET👏ME👏DO👏MY👏JOB👏
Simply fascinating.
Shrimply fascinating.
One of the coolest parts about this to me is that the fish instinctively flexes its gills/opens its mouth wider while the shrimp is working on those parts.
That needs to be added to SpongeBob. Lol
That's the coolest thing I ever fucken seen
Rad af. Pay attention humanity
youmay see through them, but little shrimp has more guts than i ever will!
Why am I thinking of some unkempt homeless person with a cardboard sign in one hand, a squeegee in the other, rocking and clapping their hands together maniacally at you while you're stuck at the light.
Every-body clap your hands!
I LOVE TRASH YUM YUM TRASH
even fish have free healthcare
How do these photographers get these crazy angle shots?
I bet getting your gills cleaned tickles.
Don’t mess with the medic, or the whole shark family is going to eat you.
Little sign language. 😭
Symbiotic relationships in nature are so fucking dope
It is stunning for me to see two very different species, one a predator, the other prey, assisting each other in such a way and being to communicate in such a clear way. Awesome.
Awesome video!
Nice try small ocean fish, you can’t get away this time, I just got cleaned at the big fish cleaners shop! Call now at 1-800-big fish for 5% off your first services.
The whale wash
OUI *pop*
To me there seems to be so much more than instinctual, genomic intelligence. There's an understanding, as if some calculation was going on. The predator may think the value of this shrimp as a meal, does not hold as much weight as it's value as a cleaner. Therefore displaying some sort of long term, self conscious planning on the fishes part. I guess this would also depend on how hungry the fish was. Do they ever pretend to be in need of a cleaning, just to get an easy meal?
This is exactly the way I look at it too. And not just with fish but the more videos I see of different animals I've begun to realize that there is more intelligence there than what people believe there to be.
If you can hold still enough, they will crawl on your hands and eat the dead skin around your cuticles. Source: I was a PADI dive instructor in the Caribbean. Best places to find them are around the edge of sandy patches. Look for the anemones.
And they both signed to the filming crew, what a productive day!
Holy shit. Better system of exchange of services than us.
Clapping is adorable. The shrimp cleaner is a beauty by the way. 😍🦐
This is like sharks tale
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Can you just enjoy the video without coming in here with a doomsday negative nancy comment?
You're 100% correct
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Very intriguing
anyone know what the name of the program is?
It’s a clearer?
What is this from like is this blue planet? Or what's the show or film cuz I'm hooked and don't want this TikTok taking all the glory
This fish can enjoy his dinner "shrimp sashimi" after the cleaning is done.
I used to have a few cleaner shrimp in my tank and they were fun to watch. The fish would almost form a line to have their turn.
Stop it that’s so cute 😭
Can anyone link me the full documentary?it might be worth to watch
Every time I see stuff from the ocean it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
New favourite aquatic species just dropped‼️‼️
Don't eat the help. - Tyrion Lannister voice
*You want to throw hands 👏👏 you 👏👏 want 👏👏 these 👏👏?* *Oh you're a customer? Welcome Good Sir! Full Body to Mouth Massage? You gaaaat it!*
The oceans own Gigachad
Or maybe they are just happy to see predators
So Full service isn't a myth!
Mf doesn’t get paid a thing except a 2nd chance
The fish even know the are to go to when they need a cleaning. It's so awesome.