Clownfish
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- Field guideClownfish that shrink to survive heatwavesFish usually grow or die; they do not get shorter. Yet when researchers measured 134 wild clown anemonefish monthly through a marine heatwave in Kimbe Bay, three-quarters of them shrank at least once, and shrinking raised their odds of surviving the heat by as much as 78 percent, especially when both members of a breeding pair shrank together.
- Field guideSymbiosis: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitismBiologists classify a close interspecific relationship by its effects on the partners: both benefit, one benefits with no detected effect on the other, or one benefits while harming the other. Those signs summarize evidence in a particular context, not fixed personalities of the organisms involved.