Deadly sophistication seen in trout-eel hunting partnership

Sep 11, 2014 16:00

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/140908_trout.htm

Cor­al trout and mor­ay eel col­la­bo­rate with deadly ef­fec­tive­ness in hunt­ing. Now, re­search­ers have stud­ied their tech­nique and con­clud­ed that the trout’s col­la­bo­ra­tive skills ri­val those of the much bigger-brained chimp, our clos­est ev­o­lu­tion­ary rel­a­tive.

Brain size is not everything, after all.

fish, intelligence, animal behavior, science

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