‘Bizarre’ fish songs on a reef reborn
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Damian Carrington
From whoops to purrs, snaps to grunts, and foghorns to laughs, a cacophony of bizarre fish songs have shown that a coral reef in Indonesia has returned rapidly to health.
Many of the noises had never been recorded before and the fish making these calls remain mysterious, despite the use of underwater speakers to try to “talk” to some.
The reef had been devastated by blast fishing, where explosives are used to stun
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