Self-sacrificing fish

Self-sacrificing fish



Flying fish (Cheilopogon melanurus) are so desperate to lay their eggs deep in the centre of a floating palm frond that many of them become stuck. Unable to escape, these dead weights sink the life raft and down they all go, to Davy Jones’ locker.

Vanished - Megascops Choliba by Jose Garcia Allievi

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