Behavioral Evidence of Predator–Predator Commensalism: Cobia Track and Feed on Prey Disturbed by Southern Stingrays

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RP @ethoges.bsky.social: 🧪 ETHOLOGY: When predators help predators 🐟🌀 Saltzman et al. observed cobia closely following foraging southern stingrays and feed on prey the rays disturb but don’t eat. This predator–predator commensalism may be an overlooked…

🧪 ETHOLOGY: When predators help predators 🐟🌀 Saltzman et al. observed cobia closely following foraging southern stingrays and feed on prey the rays disturb but don’t eat. This predator–predator commensalism may be an overlooked foraging strategy in nea…

RP @marinebiojohn.bsky.social: 🚨NEW 🐟 PAPER 🚨 On this episode of unusual animal friends… @juliasaltzman.bsky.social was in the right place at the right time to record and generate an ethogram of a stingray-cobia pair, an interaction fishers have relie…

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