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Juvenile Fish Use Sea Anemones for Predator Protection
10/17/2025
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Story summary
- A study published in the Journal of Fish Biology reports that juvenile fish interact with larval sea anemones and may use them for protection against predators.
- Blackwater divers captured images at night showing pomfrets and filefishes holding anemones in their mouths.
- Gabriel Afonso from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science led the study.
- Jeff Leis, a fish biologist, says the prevalence of this behavior among fish and anemones remains unclear.
