#fish behaviour

Different lures catch fish with different “personalities”

Articulated meat eaters, the bold go get em types… A study has just been published in PLOS one looking at whether certain angling techniques catch fish with different behavioural traits, or more colloquially, “personalities”. The study angled 100 rock and largemouth bass using two separate techniques, actively fished flashy lipless crankbaits or passively fished artificial worm lures and then…

1.Sleeping  parrotfish envelopes itself in a mucus cocoon to prevent olfactory detection from predators!

Amazing ain't it?? 

2. Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris; pictured below), a coral-reef fish can match its scent to the odour of the surrounding reef, masking itself from predators.