Hitchhiking to the abyss

Abstract We investigated, for the first time, the hitchhiker‐host fidelity of deep‐diving whale sharks and Chilean devil rays. We found that two of the most ubiquitous oceanic hitchhikers, the common remora and the pilot fish, are able to follow their hosts to bathypelagic depths, where they are exp...

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Main Authors: Jorge Fontes, Gloria Castellano‐González, Bruno C. L. Macena, Pedro Afonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-05-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10126