Thursday, October 13, 2011

Ocean Inspiration: Tool use by the orange-dotted tuskfish

A fascinating observation of tool use in fish by Giacomo Bernardi, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A clever wrasse, the orange-dotted tuskfish (Choerodon anchorago) excavates a clam and then searches for a suitable rock to crack it open!


The original article and electronic supplementary material is at Coral Reefs.
Reported on by Science Daily.

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