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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/04/2006 : 23:02:57
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Chatty toadfish like to call for mates, but they are bright enough to shut their ugly yaps when they hear nearby dolphins echo-locating for prey.
"Did I just hear what I think I heard?"
quote:
Fish Eavesdrop to Avoid Becoming Dinner
By Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
posted: 03 November 2006
01:15 pm ET
Fish can eavesdrop on the calls of dolphins to avoid getting eaten, a new study suggests.
"Probably a lot of fish can do this," said lead researcher Luke Remage-Healey, a behavioral neuro-endocrinologist at University of California, Los Angeles.
A bottom-dwelling fish found off the coast of Florida called the gulf toadfish [image] is prime prey for dolphins, which often listen to toadfish calls to find their targets. In fact, 80 percent of bottlenose dolphin diets containing sound-producing fish. But whether the toadfish peels its “ears” toward dolphins has remained a mystery.
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