damselfish

As we all know, if we just change the way we speak about things we can easily solve pretty much all real problems. This seems to be the motivation behind this petition to change the name of the damselfishes to “Hooliganfishes”. It would certainly be a more apt name for the very aggressive fishes...

While reading the NYT Magazine, I came upon this statement: Of the 1,280 endangered animals and plants listed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 557 are from Hawaii, including the short-tailed albatross, the Hawaiian hoary bat and the Kauai cave wolf spider, as well as four species...

I am presently in Siquijor in the Visayas, and I have to say that I fall in love with the reefs here more and more. The hard coral cover is healthy, and there is a good amount of very nice macro to look at and photograph. A lot of the anemones have one or a few kinds of crustaceans living on...