Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them
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Resumo: | Social stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., ‘‘fight or flight’’) or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide variety of reef fish clients, including predatory species. Cleaning gobies appraise predatory clients as potential threat and become stressed in their presence, as evidenced by their higher cortisol levels when exposed to predatory rather than to non-predatory clients. Nevertheless, cleaning gobies neither flee nor freeze in response to dangerous clients but instead approach predators faster (both in captivity and in the wild), and interact longer with these clients than with non-predatory clients (in the wild). We hypothesise that cleaners interrupt the potentially harmful physiological consequences elicited by predatory clients by becoming increasingly proactive and by reducing the time elapsed between client approach and the start of the interaction process. The activation of a stress response may therefore also be responsible for the longer cleaning service provided by these cleaners to predatory clients in the wild. Future experimental studies may reveal similar patterns in other social vertebrate species when, for instance, individuals approach an opponent for reconciliation after a conflict. |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by ThemSocial stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., ‘‘fight or flight’’) or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide variety of reef fish clients, including predatory species. Cleaning gobies appraise predatory clients as potential threat and become stressed in their presence, as evidenced by their higher cortisol levels when exposed to predatory rather than to non-predatory clients. Nevertheless, cleaning gobies neither flee nor freeze in response to dangerous clients but instead approach predators faster (both in captivity and in the wild), and interact longer with these clients than with non-predatory clients (in the wild). We hypothesise that cleaners interrupt the potentially harmful physiological consequences elicited by predatory clients by becoming increasingly proactive and by reducing the time elapsed between client approach and the start of the interaction process. The activation of a stress response may therefore also be responsible for the longer cleaning service provided by these cleaners to predatory clients in the wild. Future experimental studies may reveal similar patterns in other social vertebrate species when, for instance, individuals approach an opponent for reconciliation after a conflict.Public Library ScienceRepositório do ISPASoares, Marta C.Bshary, RedouanCardoso, Sónia C.Côté, Isabelle M.Oliveira, Rui Filipe2013-09-21T13:20:34Z2012-01-01T00:00:00Z2012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2384engPlos One, 7 (6), e397811932-6203info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-09-05T16:38:18Zoai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/2384Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T15:20:22.277099Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them Soares, Marta C. |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them |
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Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them |
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Soares, Marta C. |
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Soares, Marta C. Bshary, Redouan Cardoso, Sónia C. Côté, Isabelle M. Oliveira, Rui Filipe |
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Bshary, Redouan Cardoso, Sónia C. Côté, Isabelle M. Oliveira, Rui Filipe |
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Soares, Marta C. Bshary, Redouan Cardoso, Sónia C. Côté, Isabelle M. Oliveira, Rui Filipe |
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Social stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., ‘‘fight or flight’’) or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide variety of reef fish clients, including predatory species. Cleaning gobies appraise predatory clients as potential threat and become stressed in their presence, as evidenced by their higher cortisol levels when exposed to predatory rather than to non-predatory clients. Nevertheless, cleaning gobies neither flee nor freeze in response to dangerous clients but instead approach predators faster (both in captivity and in the wild), and interact longer with these clients than with non-predatory clients (in the wild). We hypothesise that cleaners interrupt the potentially harmful physiological consequences elicited by predatory clients by becoming increasingly proactive and by reducing the time elapsed between client approach and the start of the interaction process. The activation of a stress response may therefore also be responsible for the longer cleaning service provided by these cleaners to predatory clients in the wild. Future experimental studies may reveal similar patterns in other social vertebrate species when, for instance, individuals approach an opponent for reconciliation after a conflict. |
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