See this and be amazed; the puffer fish is never fazed
When looking for a mate, a pattern-making course he’ll skate,
And types of puffer fish can form a most expensive dish,
Though poisonous as hell, some chefs are trained to cook them well,
But they still get them wrong; for diner, then, a sad swan-song …
Indulging in this fad are Japanese, completely mad!
By way of contrast, this is what humans do with sand on Durban’s beachfront, only they are luring tourists rather than a mate.
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Ai…Dankie dat jy dit vir ons kom wys het!
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Ek is bly dat jy dit ook as wonderlik beskou!
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Wow that is incredible and I thought I was a genius with a bucket and spade! Seriously though I thought I’d watched all of these, not sure how I missed this one. How wonderful is that fish?
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I was also amazed that I had never seen or heard of this before. Glad I wasn’t the only one!
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Just watched the video. Gob-smacked! Off to show hubby his next project. 😅
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He is likely to flee
Precipitately!
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Hope not. He was very impressed though. 😀
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I wonder if I can teach my goldfish to do this. 🙂
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I love to see sand art when it’s really well done.
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And both these artists are true experts!
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The sand artist might get to mate with a tourist. You never know.
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True, indeed, though not his primary objective.
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I’m sitting here mouth opened in disbelief,, that has to be the most amazing creature on this earth in this earths oceans incredible. I wasn’t going to watch it glad I did, going back for an encore. Thanks Lesley
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It is quite astounding, isn’t it? I gasped when the finished product was first revealed.
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I was left in awe, I wondered how in sea (can’t really say on earth) the female fish could see this as we saw it, and know that it was for her benefit.
Nature is a marvelous wonderful thing. and for once we see something that doesn’t come from that great delightful man David Attenborough, who deserved being raised to the nobility moreso than his brother Dickie.
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The female sees it from the same perspective through the clear water and her skill is that of an art critic. The dedication to produce such perfect work without rest over a whole week marks the male as a fitting father for the offspring. Just as with nest inspection or decorative displays by some birds.
Agreed re David and Richard.
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His friends called him Dickie. I wonder why 👿
And we think of fish as being brainless sort of creatures, Yet if they can do such magnificent work as this, hell I wouldn’t know where to start. Who’s the brainless now 😦
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. . . I doodle . . . but it’s just for fun.
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I don’tle; I’m too bad at it for it to be fun.
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Incredible! I am dumbfounded!
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That’s exactly my reaction when I first saw it. At first I thought it must be really skilled animation.
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Come to think of it, there are similar artists in the bird kingdom. Think of what a weaver bird produces.
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