Sentences with word «filefish»

To show that filefish smelled like their home coral, the researchers recruited crabs to sniff them out.

You will also come across whale sharks, giant groupers scribbled filefish and yellowtails amongst others.

Look among the coral recesses for spotted filefish, arrow blennies, crabs, and lobsters.

The slender filefish can quickly blend in with its surroundings thanks to pigment cell and specialised skin flaps

For the new study, researchers traveled to Australia's Lizard Island Research Station in the Great Barrier Reef, where they collected filefish.

Filefish evade predators by feeding on their home corals and emitting an odor that makes them invisible to the noses of predators, the study found.

The next step in the project is to learn how filefish can smell like coral without the benefit of an exoskeleton.

A great dive site for spotting reef tropicals such as French & queen angelfish, white - lined filefish and juvenile spotted drum.

However, more often than on the USAT Liberty Shipwreck, you will see White - tip reef sharks, Napoleon wrasse, some big filefish (including Scrawled), and large moray eels.

Scrolled Filefish, Big Tarpon, Sharks and Octopus.

We can also take you bottom fishing to catch Snapper, Blue Trevally, Secribbled filefish, and many more.

Honeycomb cowfish, Spanish hogfish, midnight parrotfish and filefish make their way slowly around the reef.

Also we offer bottom fishing where you have a good chance to catch snappers, blue crevally, scribbled filefish and others.

The crabs always sought the filefish that had been feeding on the crabs home coral.

When the filefish diet matched the corals in the tank, the cod stayed tucked away in their cave inside the tank.

Cod, filefish and corals were put in a tank, with the filefish hidden from the cod.

The crabs were given a choice between a filefish that had been fed the crab's home coral and a filefish that had been fed a coral that is foreign to the crab.

«We can tell that there is something going through the filefish diet that's making the fish smell enough like the coral to confuse the crabs,» Booker said.

«We have established that there is some kind of pathway from filefish diet to filefish odor,» Booker said.

The filefish smelled so strongly of coral that sometimes the crabs were attracted to the fish instead of coral, when given a choice between the two.

To see if the chemical camouflage gives the filefish an evolutionary advantage to evade predators, the researchers tested cod to see how they responded to filefish that had been fed various diets.

The filefish were fed two different species of coral; each species of coral is home to a unique species of crab.

When the filefish diet didn't match the corals in the tank, the cod were restless, suggesting that they smelled food.

We had AOW course with Jenson who dived with many many mantas at Manta Bay, and critters found this week included yellow boxfish, turtles, nudibranch and filefish.

Some of the brilliantly - colored tropical fish that you may see include angelfish, grunts, blue tangs, butterfly fish, damselfish, drums, filefish, parrotfish, scorpion fish, trunk fish, honeycomb cowfish, grouper, snapper, squirrel fish, wrasses, goatfish, trigger fish, blue - spotted cornets, trumpet fish, lizard fish, tile fish, harlequin fish, jacks, and more.

These structures provide a shelter for trumpet fish, filefish and sometimes seahorses.

Also, we offer bottom fishing where you have a good chance to catch snappers, blue crevally, scribbled filefish, etc..

We organise diving trips to some of the most stunning dive sites in St Lucia, including Anse Chastenet Reef, Turtle Reef and Pinnacles, where you'll see a huge variety of marine life including goat fish, filefish, trumpet fish, barrel sponges and pillar coral — and if you're lucky, you may even spot a turtle or two.

There will be angelfish, butterflies, coral trout, damsels, emperors, filefish, gropers, hawkfish... the list is endless... and that's just the fish.

In the deeper sections, there are many red and white whip corals and here you are likely to spot small schools of Oriental sweetlips, blue - lined snapper, barracudas, grouper, triggerfishes, parrotfish and filefish.

Nevertheless, the site abounds with delicate sea fans and spiraling wire coral and is home to many types of fish including groupers, filefish, snapper, etc..