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![]() Found this in one of my texts, kinda neat: "A cost-benefit approach to territoriality requires that we consider the disadvantages of aggression, one of the most obvious of which is the time cost of the behaviour. A territorial surgeonfish, for example, chases rivals away from its algae-rich turf on a Samoan reef an average of 1900 times per day." So I guess we know why tangs are such bums in many cases. (Imagine doing the data collection for that research.)
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-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906 |
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![]() I wonder if they are referring to a particular species or all tangs in general? They mention a specific reef so I would be inclined to think they mean a certain fish. Any ideas which one?
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![]() Here's the other side of the page, Acanthurus lineatus (clown tang). However it may be a stock photo. There are a fair number of species of tang that live in Samoa.
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![]() I have no trouble believing that of a Clown Tang.
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