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Monday, November 14, 2011

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Violent passions: Jealous cleaner shrimp murder their rivals

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:55 AM PST

The hermaphroditic cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis usually live in monogamous pairs, but dark passions underlie their social structure. New research shows that cleaner shrimp, in any group larger than two, viciously attack and kill each other until only a single pair remains.

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