Did you know fish can guide divers to food? 🧐 These clever little creatures have found a way to team up with humans to protect their homes and fill their bellies! Watch how a tiny damselfish turns divers into its personal urchin removers. 🐠✨
When divers collect sea urchins, they do something unusual. They stop to crack them open and feed the fish. But this isn't just kindness; it's survival. Because fish find it very difficult to crack and eat invasive sea urchins. So, the fish lead the divers to clusters of urchins, and while the fish get fed, the divers' baskets get filled. However, one fish, the damselfish, has taken this partnership to another level. It has started taming the divers. This little gardener spends its days tending to its algae farm, weeding out snails, and fiercely chasing off intruders. But black sea urchins, they don't just eat the roots of the plants and even ruin what they don't eat with their spines. The little damselfish tries to remove them one by one or toss them into a neighbor's garden. But by the next day, dozens more take their place, leaving not even a single seedling behind. That's why when damselfish see a diver collecting urchins, they rush over, leading them to their garden for a little help.
