Topic ID #14116 - posted 9/29/2011 1:36 PM
Jennifer Palmer
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Tool-using tuskfish captured for the first time on video: using rock to crush a clam
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Tool-using tuskfish captured for the first time on video
Biologist records sequence that shows Palau fish using rock to crush a clam
By Stephanie Pappas Senior writer
updated 1 hour 41 minutes ago
A fish using tools to crack open a stubborn clam shell has been caught on video for the first time.
The clip, shot in 2009 off the Pacific island of Palau, shows an orange-dotted tuskfish (Choerodon anchoago) digging a clam out of the ocean floor and carrying the clam in its mouth to a rock. Next, the fish repeatedly tosses the clam against the rock to crush it.
Read more here.
Biologist records sequence that shows Palau fish using rock to crush a clam
By Stephanie Pappas Senior writer
updated 1 hour 41 minutes ago
A fish using tools to crack open a stubborn clam shell has been caught on video for the first time.
The clip, shot in 2009 off the Pacific island of Palau, shows an orange-dotted tuskfish (Choerodon anchoago) digging a clam out of the ocean floor and carrying the clam in its mouth to a rock. Next, the fish repeatedly tosses the clam against the rock to crush it.
Read more here.
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