Peer pressure can make this clownfish change its stripes
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Tomato clownfish, in response to an unpredictable world, appear capable of adjusting when they lose their stripes based on cues from other fish and their habitat, a new study in PLOS Biology finds. (Image credit: Camille A. Sautereau)
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