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Humans may attach fishing line to the remora and wait for it to cling to a larger fish.
Typical epibionts are barnacles, remoras and algae, all of which live on many larger marine organisms, such as whales, sharks, sea turtles and mangroves.
The spinning behavior of dolphins, sharks, and other remora hosts has been proposed as a means of dislodging them.
Smaller dragons voyage by attaching themselves to the hide of this species, much like the remora.
Some fish regularly clean others, and wrasse and shrimp appear to specialise in this regard, as do remora, which permanently hang on to their hosts.
Remoras can be caught as fishing bycatch and put in aquaria.
Because of the shape of the jaws, appearance of the sucker, and coloration of the remora, it sometimes appears to be swimming upside down.
