Friday, July 18, 2008

Singing for a mate


We were all stumped by this question on the beach a few weekends ago. Which type of fish sings for its mate, underneath a rock no less.


We all looked at each other and didn't know. Then it hit us. The gunnel. Although I haven't heard it humming away, others in the Beach Naturalist group has. And this BBC article talks about how this may have been one of the first sounds out of the dark void: a fish humming for a mate.

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