The Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station has been a wonderful place for research and learning during my time as a PhD student with James Cook University. Over the last three years, I have been working at LIRS studying the behaviour of two species of schooling fish: the blue-green puller Chromis viridis and the […]
Archives for 2016
Baby fish – the vital larval phase
Marine fish begin as eggs, hatch as larvae and go through further phases to adulthood. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae are entirely on their own, with no parental care or training. Knowledge of the larval phase for each species is vital to our understanding of the connectivity of fish populations along the Great […]
Curious cuttlefish
Cuttlefish are found throughout the world’s oceans. The most common around Lizard Island are Broadclub Cuttlefish Sepia latimanus. These cephalopods are one of the most intelligent invertebrates, grasping new concepts quickly, especially when adapting to external influences. They have the ability to alter their colour pigments to intimidate predators, attract mates, increase their camouflage and […]