The Remora and the Shark was produced by Squideo from an idea and a script by Lucy Osler, Anneli Jefferson, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Elisabetta Lalumera, Lisa Bortolotti and Anna Mameli.
Using AI can be useful, fill some knowledge gaps, and even relieve loneliness. But we should not expect chatbots to act as friends! They might not always have our best interests at heart, and may agree with us just to keep us engaged. They are not a replacement for good human friends. Sometimes we need to be challenged and come in touch with different perspectives.
Nature facts:
Remoras, also called suckerfish or sharksucker, are skilled at hitchhiking, utilising special sucker dishes to connect to the organism that hosts and carries them. Such dishes look like a mouth but actually are modified dorsal fins.
Remoras can attach themselves securely to sharks, rays, whales, dolphins, sea turtles. In our story, a shark transports a remora through the ocean.
In the picture above, you can see several remoras glued to a shark! While remoras gain access to food and protection from predators by riding with sharks, sharks are kept sparkly clean by their passengers. Remoras eat algae and bacteria that may get stuck to sharks.