By beating its fins in specific patterns, the fish creates alternating peaks and troughs, channeling fine sand into the center. The central area often contains shell fragments and other decorative ...

Dense sand clouds emerge as he works, but so does a complex pattern. The interconnected paths ultimately come together as a circular design many times the size of the fish's body; pufferfish ...

A team of researchers has been behind this artistic carving only to know it was puffer fish’s mating rituals ... that it could be the fine sand or central patterns that attract them.

Male Japanese pufferfish build exquisite sand sculptures to attract a mate. When a female is not impressed with this male’s creation, Spy Puffer steps in as the artist’s assistant. - [Narrator ...

Males laboriously flap their fins as they swim along the seafloor, resulting in disrupted sediment and amazing circular patterns. Although the fish are ... s only the fine sand the females are ...

Japan’s white-spotted pufferfish are renowned for producing complex, ringed patterns in the sand. Now ... report in the November 2020 Journal of Fish Biology. And when a colleague deployed ...