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When researchers from Newcastle University (UK) played recordings of piling sounds and mimicked an approaching predator, the European sea bass they were observing appeared confused, making more turns and did not swim away from the "predator".
Read moreIn a new study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the UK, US and France observed bluestreak cleaner wrasse at 24 cleaning stations and discovered that the noise from motorboats affected the behavior of both the cleaners and t
Read moreGenerally speaking, aggressive males with strong sexual drives are the ones that tend to have an evolutionary advantage. However, this is not the case for the eastern mosquitofish, a small, freshwater fish.
Read moreOne such hotspot can be found near some Adélie penguin breeding colonies along the western Antarctic Peninsula, off Anvers Island.
Read moreScientists from University of Exeter discovered that the noise from motorboats bothered coral fish so much that their parental behaviour was changed and the male fish stopped protecting, feeding and interacting with their young.
Read moreAccording to previous studies, male Steller sea lions tend to disperse more than their female counterparts. However, we know relatively little about the habits of the females.
Read moreMost coral reef fishes do not take care of their young. They produce large numbers of young that drift away with the currents, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Read moreEven within a specific species, fish have individual personalities. At Lund University in Sweden, researchers have demonstrated a connection between a fish's personality (whether it was bold or shy) and the risk of being killed by predator.
Read moreBasking sharks often spend most of their time far from land and little time at the surface of the ocean, so little is known about where they migrate to during winter.
Read moreBeing in a tank with female guppies seems to take its toll on the males as they engage in sexual harassment of the females, attempting to mate as many times as possible. This was the finding in a study by Macquarie University in Australia
Read moreAfter studying different groups of humpback whales migrating south along the Queensland coast in September and October of 2010 and 2011, University of Queensland marine biologist Ailbhe Kavanagh and her colleagues discovered that the whales were a
Read moreScientists from the University of Exeter, University of York and University of the West Indies, St Augustine have discovered that Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) form stronger relationships if they thought that there are predators
Read moreTo find out if such behaviour resulted in any social ramifications, researchers from Savannah State University in the US observed the bottlenose dolphins in the estuarine waterways for three consecutive summers, using photo-identification surveys
Read moreAlso known as boxer or pom-pom crabs, the small Lybia crabs are always carrying a pair of sea anemones in their front claws.
Read moreThis was what the scientists at the University of Bayreuth in Germany discovered when they observed the behaviour of some wild-caught fish recently.
Read moreSeals are able to locate flatfish hiding in the sand at the bottom of the sea. This is true even if the seawater is murky and visibility is low.
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