If we told you fish disguise themselves by the coral that they eat would you believe us? Well you better because that is the truth! Learn more about this new discover in filefish’s camouflage technique in BU’s marine biologist, Prof. Jelle Atema’s research featured in National Geographic, Fish Smell Like the Coral They Eat-Disguise is New to Science.
An orange-spotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris, is seen in front of its favorite food, corals in the Acropora genus, in 2010.
Photograph by Jason Isley, Scubazoo/Science Faction/Corbis