Dr. Andrew Bass
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As musicians have told me, it sounds like a dimmerijou.
They've sometimes been referred to as the ugliest fish in the sea.
Yeah, you know, it's not like looking at a reef fish, right?
It's almost like, I don't, if I can, forgive me if I say this, it's almost like a lullaby, I think.
And there are reports even of eagles sweeping down and taking them out of the water.
We have videos showing the male will move her sometimes along the roof.
this is like amazing this is actually so i have to tell you my wife her name is margaret moshiter who's worked with me closely on this over the years yeah she's the one who's made some really amazing videos showing these things right you see something like that and you go wow that is such a sophisticated behavior yeah and a delicate behavior
You know, that's a really good question.
We have no evidence to support what you just said.
In other words, they were fishes that would sneak into the nest of another male to try to steal fertilizations from them.
What we observed was that these smaller males would literally sneak in.