The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone.
Kate Otter
The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs attack their anemone prey in groups, highlighting that predator cooperation is not limited to more complex carnivores like wolves or lions.
“[This study]neatly demonstrates that the same forms of cooperative behaviour have evolved as ways of solving life’s challenges across quite different organisms and ecological contexts,” said Michael Cant of the University of Exeter in the UK, who was not involved in the study.
