This would explain their other name, the “sabre-toothed” blenny. Any fish approached a blenny expecting a refreshing day at the spa might instead be treated to a viscous chomping by the tiny impersonator. But while cleaner wrasse are a friendly sort that help out larger fish by the nibbling their parasites off (in exchange for not being eaten), the blenny isn’t quite as helpful. In fact they’re called “false” cleanerfish, such is the resemblance.
A Swedish study found that brown trout females were faking it a whopping 69 (ha!) times out of 177 interactions observed.ħ: Sabre Toothed Blenny Poses as a Friend, Bites Your FaceĪspidontus taeniatus is a small species of blenny fish from the Indo-Pacific that looks and acts remarkably like another fish in the area, the cleaner wrasse. And these females are apparently very picky. Meanwhile the female is still primed and ready to go, in hopes that a more attractive option will swim by. But oftentimes the females never drop their eggs at all, leaving the males confused as they wander off and presumably lie to their friends. When a male and female trout are poised and ready to get down to the business of spawning, both parties “quiver violently with their mouths open,” signaling their impending climax. To counter this, the females of one species of trout exert some control over the situation by doing their best Meg Ryan impressions and faking orgasms. But since all this takes place without the pair actually coupling physically, any old random doofus of a male can wander by and attempt to be the fish baby daddy. As soon as a female drops her eggs onto the stream bed, the male has to be right there to simultaneously release his sperm for the best chances at success. Trout sex can be a tricky affair, and the timing of the thing has to be just right. Then when the cuckoo eggs hatch, the larvae join in on the feast. Some cuckoo species up the evil ante by eating their host’s eggs and larvae, then filling in the empty spaces with their own eggs.
This scenario will inevitably spell doom for the hive, as more and more resources are consumed with nothing given in return. Once the invading mother gets her eggs laid, the hive will take over all the work of cuckoo baby care.
If there’s any suspicion, cuckoo queens are built tough enough to survive and triumph in confrontations with the workers. She will either sneak in and wait awhile to acquire the smell of the other bees, or go straight for the queen and murder her straightaway.
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Cuckoo bees include a variety of differently species that have all independently evolved the same despicable method of reproduction - just like the birds for which they’re named, these bees are brood parasites.įirst, a cuckoo female finds a suitable hive full of unsuspecting dupes.
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