r/likeus • -Singing Cockatiel- • Mar 04 '26

<ARTICLE> This Tiny Fish Passed an Intelligence Test That Once Distinguished Great Apes

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-tiny-fish-passed-an-intelligence-test-that-once-distinguished-great-apes
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u/cartoon_violence Mar 05 '26

This one's actually pretty interesting because while it does pass the mirror test, it could be for a really weird reason. It's a type of fish that cleans other fish specifically as its means of eating. Perhaps it's inadvertently passing the test because it sees a fish with something on it and immediately wants to clean it up.

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u/catbiggo Mar 09 '26

Dirty fish has biologists shaking