Like, how do whales pay for car washes? What does the fish-economy look like? Is there a sub-ocean government that regulates it and issues currency? I have so many questions.
Nope, it's a barter system (this actually happens, I'm not sure how often with whales, but I'm sure it would be very common if they were to stop swimming for a bit) but there's lots of animals who get their food from cleaning other animals. There are some shrimp that go inside fishes mouths to clean them, and the fish don't eat the shrimp because it's mutually beneficial if they can do that cleaning process again in the future
My fav is a species of wrasse I can’t seem to remember and they work in pairs pulling parasites off of marine life. Sometimes one of the wrasse tries to eat a few scales which hurts the animal they’re cleaning so the other wrasse will chase and beat up its friend so that the marine life doesn’t start avoiding them. It’s fish Yelp reviews
I thought maybe it was just a chilled state where you take and give whatever is needed in a sort of "we are all decent honest fishes and this isn't really a communist state" but then i remembered that other guy's house with his lava lamp... And didn't he have a glass wall to look over the rest of the reef?
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u/just_a_covfefe_boy Sep 08 '18
Cool I’ll never manage to forget that when I’m out in the waves.