Mimic surgeonfish. Reference photo by Rickard Zerpe, Wikimedia Commons.
The world’s waterbodies are filled with predatory fish feeding on other animals from zooplankton to squid and other fish, while “vegetarian” or herbivore fish are rare, new research has found.
From studying fish abundance at her Alma Mater, the University of Western Australia, Amy Rose Coghlan switched to researching fish distributions at the Sea Around Us at the University of British Columbia. That is 14,843 kilometres away from home.
But that wasn’t a straight jump. Continue reading