Science
How Suckerfish Surf Across Blue Whales Without Falling Off – The New York Times
Remoras — known for hitching rides on whales and sharks — swim surprisingly freely over the surfaces formed by their hosts.
In 2014, Jeremy Goldbogen, a marine biologist at Stanford University, stuck video cameras on the backs of blue whales, hoping to learn more about their feeding habits. When he retrieved the footage, he realized he had been photobombed. Dozens of Remora australis were treating his research subjects like dance floors, skimming and twisting across them even as the whales swam at high speeds.
They were cruising all over the surface of the whales, he said. We were not expecting that at all.
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