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The various sounds heard from different species of damselfish in particular can tell us a lot about the health of an ecosystem. The overfishing of mesopredators like snapper and grouper causes herbivorous damselfish populations to increase while some species of herbivorous damselfish will actively kill coral to grow their algae gardens says Munger.
If too many herbivorous damselfish can be heard scientists can tell the reef is in trouble. Ocean languages Scientists have also been able to link the various noises of a single species not only to Mobile App Development Service their presence but to their specific behaviours. The recording below is an aggressive territorial display from a dominant female clown fish defending her anemone on the reef in Moorea French Polynesia. By listening to reefs we realised we could start to unlock their language says Simpson.
Weve been focusing on clownfish to decode the acoustic language that they use to look after each other to beat each other up to attract their mates to look after their offspring and so on of a clown fish Scientists have also learned a lot about the complex behaviours of the damselfish through listening to their sounds another factor which helps in their use as indicator species.
If too many herbivorous damselfish can be heard scientists can tell the reef is in trouble. Ocean languages Scientists have also been able to link the various noises of a single species not only to Mobile App Development Service their presence but to their specific behaviours. The recording below is an aggressive territorial display from a dominant female clown fish defending her anemone on the reef in Moorea French Polynesia. By listening to reefs we realised we could start to unlock their language says Simpson.
Weve been focusing on clownfish to decode the acoustic language that they use to look after each other to beat each other up to attract their mates to look after their offspring and so on of a clown fish Scientists have also learned a lot about the complex behaviours of the damselfish through listening to their sounds another factor which helps in their use as indicator species.