Ari Daniel
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Hi, Regina.
Well, I want you to think of me in this episode as your, let's say, fairy godfather who's about to grant you three fishes.
We're going to go to the Western Pacific, among the tentacles of a certain kind of anemone called the bubble tip anemone.
Bingo.
Clownfish are those splashes of color that you find in the sea and aquaria and, of course, finding Nemo.
Me too.
In fact, I just rewatched it with my kids.
Now, there are different kinds of clownfish.
There's the Nemo kind, of course.
But I want to tell you about a mystery from one called the tomato clownfish.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Keeping up with the tomato analogy, it's like a strip of burrata cheese or something.
Yeah.
And you see that single stripe in all adults.
But young tomato clownfish, just a couple weeks old, they have two to three white stripes.
As they develop, they go on to lose all but one of those stripes, that white headband.
So they disappear as they grow up.
Aha!
Is that your first of three fishes, Regina?