“The ocean, especially in shallow and rocky areas where the rockhead poacher lives, is unbelievably loud and acoustically ...
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Rockhead poacher fish appear to communicate by using their ribs to play their heads like a drum
In the US and Canada, along the Pacific Coast, lives an odd-looking fish known as the rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii).
The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...
“It looks like the fish has a large chunk of its skull missing—as though somebody took a little ice cream scoop and took a ...
The rockhead, or deep-pitted, poacher may use its ribs to beat the inside of its head cavity to communicate with other ...
A cavity in the middle of the rockhead poacher’s skull might be used like a maraca to produce sound, new research suggests.
Researchers studying rockhead poachers from Deadman Bay think they may have solved the mystery of the fish's odd bowl-shaped ...
Scientists are studying a unique fish called the rockhead poacher. This small fish has a strange hollow in its skull. New ...
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