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Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and happy new year! Festive finery, courtesy frisky fishes (License image)
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明けましておめでとうございます. 今年もよろしくお願いします Japan marks the change of the lunar year zodiac on 1 January, even though it is the start of the solar year. This temporal mixed metaphor irks me, but it is what it is. I...
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This is a Pfeiffer's top shell (Tegula pfeifferi). It is perched atop a structure of rock and coral, broadcasting eggs into the water while attended to by a hermit crab and little pufferfish. Tegula...
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This is a female whitespotted pygmy filefish (Rudarius ercodes). She is tending to eggs that she has affixed to seagrass (Zostera marina): Dainty little filefish tending to her eggs (License image)...
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Please use this link to sign-up to receive my blog posts via email. I use Mailchimp. You can unsubscribe at any time. If you use an RSS feed reader, this is the feed. Baby Eumicrotremus taranetzi...
View ArticleGoat Migration
This is a pair of bicolor goatfish (Parupeneus barberinoides) engaged in the process of making little aquatic goats: Parupeneus barberinoides goatfish spawning (License image) This type of...
View ArticleCrayfish Catastrophe
This is a signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus): Invasive species, Pacifastacus leniusculus signal crayfish (License image) These crustaceans are common in fresh water systems in several areas of...
View ArticleOogway Turns Seven
Oogway and I have an understanding. I listen when she talks. I do what she wants. In return, she entertains me. A couple of weeks ago, just as I was thinking about how to photograph her to commemorate...
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