COLORFUL???? THEN BE AWARE OF COLOR!!!
THE RAINBOW
FISH THAT LURES ITS ENEMY TO DESTRUCTION
Superb colors
adorn many of the fish, and here we do get a clue to purpose. Those most
highly-colored are generally unfit for human food. In some cases we find that
the dazzling beauty is a decoy fish, which, when pursued, darts into the
interior of a massive sea anemone, followed by its foe. The little rainbow fish
is unharmed in that gloomy fleshy cavern, but the fish which pursues it is paralyzed and digested by its host. The handsome
lure remains inside while digestion takes place, but afterwards escapes.
That is an
outstanding example of co-operation, and the water team with them. The hungry
shark has its guide, or companion, in the little pilot fish which precedes or
follows it, as the hyena precedes or follows the lion.
(source:
TBOK v7 4857)
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