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Archives for April 2015

Citizen Science and the Purple Flying Gurnard

April 22, 2015 1 Comment

Science teacher Edward Sze-Tu visited the Lizard Island Research Station with a group of school students, where he made an exciting discovery.  This is his story: We were learning about classifications.  I thought it would be a great opportunity for the students to understand the contributions ordinary citizens can make to marine research.    We had just finished […]

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Hiding in plain sight: The Dusky Dottyback

April 8, 2015 Leave a Comment

  The dusky dottyback Pseudochromis fuscus changes colour to mimic its damselfish prey. This deception and camouflage is called phenotypic plasticity. It is typically executed as an almost-perfect mimicry of several model fish species rather than a perfect mimicry of just one. This enables mimics to deceive target species by using multiple facades. Fabio Cortesi […]

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