On a shallow fringing reef off Sesoko Island in Okinawa, Japan, researchers spent three years following one of the reef’s most conspicuous predators: the blackspotted pufferfish, Arothron nigropunctatus. What they documented is a rare, real-time account of how a coral-eating fish rewires its diet when a mass bleaching event devastates its food supply. The study, published in the journal Coral Reefs, combines more than 100 hours of direct underwa…
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