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The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil

The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2
Discover the quirky creature known as the parrotfish, and the key role it plays in keeping coral reefs healthy and thriving. As the sun rises over a quiet coral reef, one animal breaks the morning silence. Named for its vibrant scales and beak-like teeth, the parrotfish devours a particularly crunchy breakfast: rocks. Why would any creature take bites out of the seafloor? Mike Gil explores how these quirky and flashy foragers play a key role in defending the essential coral reef ecosystem. Lesson by Mike Gil, directed by Franz Palomares
Date: 2020-08-22

Comments and reviews: 6


Went scuba diving once. Happily feeding the fishes with bread the instructor gave me. Then came this massive fellow driving out those who feeds from my hand. I was shocked but thinking I can't be more surprised than this. Gosh I was wrong. Unleashing it's giant beak-like teeth, it munched the whole bread like it was nothing. Terrified of losing a finger, I throwed everything I got while taking few steps behind, all while my instructor was couple meters in front of me, taking pictures. Didn't see it, but I knew he's lowkey laughing behind that scuba mask seeing me frantically fending off the mighty parrotfish. 10/10 would feed again, and next time, I shall come prepared.
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simple solution
Stop eating fish
dispose waste responsibly or recycle
stop dumping waste into the ocean
buy more eco friendly food packaging like glass instead of plastic
now to get everyone on board is the tricky part.

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3: 33 Unfortunately, human activities have disrupted almost every part of this complex system.
I KNEW IT. Eventually, it's all human's destruction capabilities that bring a lot of negative impacts. sorry fish, corals, sea

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Look humans! how we are connected to each other, it's like a chain of reactions if something dissapears from the ecosystem it starts destroying others completely
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idk but like everything gone so well. everything in balance, until humans came in. However, its also on humans to save the ecosystems, we can do it if we will.
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Unfortunately in countries such as mine where the parrot fish exist, they are caught at an alarming rate because they are supposedly very delicious
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