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Japanese puffer fish likes making sand circles at the bottom of the sea
The intricate circular pattern above wasn’t made by any manmade source, nor through some alien undersea device. Instead, it was made by a very ambitious puffer fish off the coast of Japan.
The circle is real, and it was laid out by an ambitious puffer fish off an island south of mainland Japan. After photographer Yoji Ookata stumbled upon it, he dragged an NHK camera crew out to the site, leading to a program with the over-the-top title of, as translated, “The Discovery of a Century: Deep Sea Mystery Circle” (photos available, but no video). They found that a male puffer fish created and decorated the structure to attract an egg-laying female. That behavior is strikingly similar to bowerbirds, as University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne noted on his site.
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