Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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What Are the Watthe Effects?
The three broad categories that it generally falls into is finding food, attracting mates and defending against preditors. Most bi luminescence is blue, because that's the color that travels furthest through sea water. But for example, there's a deep sea fish that i love that produces far red light from a big red light orn under each eye. And it has some visual pigments that allows it to see red light. So it uses it like a sniper scope, so it can sneak up on animals that are blind to the red light orter at shorter distances. Some of them are chin barbles, you know, not no, sometimes it's arched in front o different colors of
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