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🗓️ 17 January 2020
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0:29.0 | This is a scientific American 60 second science. I'm Christopher in Taliata. The Ramora is an unusual fish. It hitch hikes on other sea creatures using a sucker on its head. |
0:35.0 | So you can see them on whales, dolphin, sharks, turtles. They stick to scuba divers. |
0:41.0 | They stick to boats. They stick to other fishes and other amores. |
0:44.0 | Brooke Flamang is a comparative biomechanist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. |
0:49.6 | She says sticking to other animals is a pretty good strategy. |
0:53.0 | They avoid predation by sticking to large animals. |
0:55.8 | No one's going to attack you if you're on a shark. |
0:57.7 | And it's a food source. |
0:58.6 | Many of them pick parasites off of the host they're attached to, |
1:01.6 | as well as eat bits of food that are flying by and |
1:04.1 | poop they also have the ability to potentially meet other remorse for mating on the |
1:08.7 | same organisms. But now her team has discovered that the fish have another |
1:12.1 | unusual quality. |
1:13.8 | They're sensitive to touch, a type of touch previously unknown in the fish world. |
1:18.8 | Up until now, we did not think that fish had the ability to sense touch in this way or to sense |
1:25.8 | dragging and shear which is of course going to be very important for a moor that's |
1:29.3 | attached to something that's moving very quickly. |
1:31.8 | By dissecting the fish's suckers and looking at the tissue with that's |
1:33.0 | moving very quickly. |
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