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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-05-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10126 |