Some fish, with their delicate features and calm poised attitudes,
always appear ready for their close-ups. Others, like this teetering
triggerfish, look like you’ve just snapped a Polaroid of them in the
middle of wild weekend in Las Vegas.
To be fair, when expedition leader Enric Sala took this photo, the
fish was essentially in the middle of a bath, getting the spa treatment
from a tiny cleaner fish visible just below its eyes.
Beyond the Funny Face
I saw the same behavior (and perhaps even the same fish) today as I
dove with our fish experts Jenn Caselle from Marine Science Institute,
UC Santa Barbara, and Alan Friedlander of the US Geological Survey and
University of Hawaii as they laid out rope and tape measures and
identified and counted every fish that passed by that line.
