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Teenager visits cleaning station; gets teeth cleaned by shrimps

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Teenagers, eh? Always showing off.

On a recent diving trip with his father to Bali, 13-year-old Russell Laman, from Lexington, Massachusetts USA, decided to imitate the behaviour of fish that were waiting for the services of the shrimps at a cleaning station to see what would happen.

Russell queued with the waiting fish and then opened his mouth when the shrimps came near. The shrimp then incredibly started to clean Russell’s mouth and remove food from between the boys teeth whilst his father Tim took photographs.

Russell said: ‘It felt like tiny little dentists picking away at my teeth and scuttling around my mouth, it tickled a little but not too badly.

‘I had watched fish getting cleaned at cleaning stations before and decided to try it out myself.

‘I thought it would be really cool to experience shrimp in my mouth first hand.

‘It is a large part of the ecosystem underwater and many fish rely on the shrimp so I decided to rely on them as well.’

Father and son discovered the fish ‘cleaning station’ where the shrimp wait for customers, in a beautiful outcrop of sponges growing from some rocks.

The area was loaded with cleaner shrimp and surrounded by hoards of fish.

‘I do the same thing as the fish, when I start to run out of air I slowly close my mouth and the shrimp get out of there.’

The behaviour of species like the White-banded Cleaner Shrimp is well known to hard-core biologists and divers but capturing the process on a human is very rare.

Tim said: ‘It really is pretty amazing that these little shrimp immediately recognize a human mouth as analogous to a fish mouth and go in looking for bits of food.

‘It takes a relaxed diver to take out his regulator at 23 metres deep and present your mouth wide open to some shrimp.

‘You have to hold your breath for I’d say at least 30 seconds to have a reasonable chance, and Russell calmly held his breath for over 40 seconds.

‘It is pretty unusual for a kid of Russell’s age to be able to do it.’

Maybe so, Tim, Maybe so – but I don’t think Colgate have got anything to worry about just yet.

 

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Photo: Tim Laman

 

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