Even though a male cichlid is one tough fish, he may be scared of his own reflection. A new study shows that squaring off to fight a mirror opponent can be worse than fighting a real foe.
SEZ WHO? Male cichlids get hostile when they meet a real male (shown here) or when they come across their own reflection, but new studies show the fish sense something different when menacing their own mirror image.
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