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Not for the longfin damselfish, who has turned the planktonic mysid shrimp into a virtual farmhand.
The tiny shrimp have been trained to help the damselfish fertilize the algae farms that make up its diet, according to a new study out of Australia.
This may be the first instance of a non-human species domesticating another species.
Understanding how the damselfish has trained the mysids could reveal insights into how humans first domesticated dogs, chickens and other animals.
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Researchers in Belize found longfin damselfish have trained tiny mysid shrimp to fertilize their algae farms, in what s believed to be the first evidence of a non-human species domesticating another species