Sep 3, 2024
Daily fish fact #837
Lookdown!
They are so named because they seemingly appear to look below themselves. When feeling uneasy or stressed, these fish will make grunting noises with the use of their teeth and swim bladder.
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Daily fish fact #837
Lookdown!
They are so named because they seemingly appear to look below themselves. When feeling uneasy or stressed, these fish will make grunting noises with the use of their teeth and swim bladder.
Inspired by a really cute hand-painted plate [x]
A lookdown fish at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida.
📸 Florida
Lookdowns
The lookdown (Selene vomer) is of genus Selene and order Carangiformes. This fish species is a game fish and is related to Atlantic moonfish. These fish are fast swimming and are carnivorous. They feed at dawn and dusk. They do well in an aquarium with proper care and daily feeding.
I still really like my Lookdown from SciArt September They're a weird fish and I was very happy with this drawing and my rough colors. This was for the prompt ‘mirrored’ because lookdowns are shiny shiny
A lookdown fish facing the camera By: Miami Seaquarium From: The Living World of the Sea 1966
Researchers discover a new way fish camouflage themselves in the ocean
Fish can hide in the open ocean by manipulating how light reflects off their skin, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The discovery could someday lead to the development of new camouflage materials for use in the ocean, and it overturns 40 years of conventional wisdom about fish camouflage. The researchers found that lookdown fish camouflage themselves through a complex manipulation of polarized light after it strikes the fishes' skin. In laboratory studies, they showed that this kind of camouflage outperforms by up to 80 percent the "mirror" strategy that was previously thought to be state-of-the-art in fish camouflage.
The study was published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research was funded by the U.S. Navy, which has an interest both in developing better ocean camouflage technologies and in being able to detect such strategies if developed by others
More at e! Science News
Image: Lookdown Fish, Jeff Kubina