“…It has been suggested that attaching to mobile hosts benefits the remoras by reducing metabolic demands for swimming (Muir and Buckley, 1967), offering opportunistic feeding (Strasburg, 1962) or increasing the chance of finding mates (Silva and Sazima, 2003). Remoras have been known to strongly attach to sharks (Ritter, 2002;Ritter and Brunnschweiler, 2003), rays (Williams et al, 2003), other pelagic fish (Williams et al, 2003), sea turtles (Sazima and Grossman, 2006), dolphins (Weihs et al, 2007), divers (Silva and Sazima, 2003), buoys (Cressey and Lachner, 1970), ship hulls (Cressey and Lachner, 1970) and concrete (Strasburg, 1962). This variety of hosts moves at many different speeds and have body surfaces that span a broad spectrum of geometries and topologies (Stote et al, 2014).…”