Puffer Fish Making Sand Art

And it makes no ordinary sand art indeed its sand sculpture will make you realize fish could sometimes be better than humans.

Puffer fish making sand art. Pufferfish makes the beautifully sculptured sand art to attract and win a mate. Right around this time last year news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual. An underwater cameras shows an unlikely artist a small japanese puffer fish using only his flapping fin to tirelessly carve circular ridges in the sand. Delicately made the sand art is given details to make it look attractive.

Although the fish are only about 12 centimeters 5 inches long the formations they make measure about 2 meters 7 feet in diameter. Beneath the waters that surround the amamioshima island in japan a tiny artist is gathering fine sand to create a patterned circle for an elaborate mating ritual. The puffer fish best known in japan as a. Colossal art design and visual culture.

For example male featherfin cichlids in africa s lake tanganyika build small bowls out of the sand and display them to females before mating there said alex jordan a researcher at the. Fish creates beautiful sand art in the name of love yoji ookata is a scuba diver and self taught underwater photographer. It takes about seven to nine days for the pufferfish to. The behavior was first documented by a photographer named yoji ookata who later returned with a film crew from the japanese.