Ichthyology (FISHES) with Chris Thacker
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Do Fish Develop Emotional Attachments to Other Fish?
Why does the male carry the babies? You know, I'm actually not sure. Oh, my gosh. There's so many reasons. What a great group of fish those are. They do not mate for life. They'll mate with many different females throughout their life. Do they go be in the shrimp? Like, do they? I feel like they would have to, right? But I think there's no evidence of that. In fact, even fishes like, fish will protect their young if they know they're their young. Some fishes actually the young have to exhibit a different coloration pattern, it show different behavior just so that the adult doesn't think they're an enemy
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