Puffer Fish Ocean Floor Design

Puffer has hook removed from mouth by scuba diver.
Puffer fish ocean floor design. No it s not aliens of the deep it s actually pufferfish hoping to snag a mate a new study says. It s almost impossible to catch a male angler fish. This fish creates large underwater crop circles to attract mate. They don t exist for very long.
As such it must swim to find a female angler. Right around this time last year news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual. Colossal art design and visual culture. Underwater crop circles from japan are an amazing form of biological art.
Amazing little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles. When a male angler fish is born it is a tiny creature with no digestive system. Pufferfish mating may explain mysterious circles on ocean floor video weirdest animal mating practices. What creates mysterious circles on the seafloor.
Smart news keeping you current pufferfish create underwater crop circles when they mate there is a chance that it s only the fine sand the females are after not the formations intricate. But no one knew how these so called mystery circles were constructed or what was creating them until now. The behavior was first documented by a photographer named yoji ookata who later returned with a film crew from the japanese. A library of puffer fish dna.
Divers first noticed the 6 5 foot wide 2 meter wide circular structures near japan s amami oshima island about 20 years ago. Fisheries western australia common blowfish fact sheet. Scientists now know pufferfish make the formations to attract mates. Smithsonian institution s ocean portal.