Also check out this amazing video filmed by my star undergrad who found this ongoing in the fish room this morning. #Anableps
Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
Single newborn 3” four eyed fish - grey brown with a white dorsal stripe in a shoebox. Note the iris grows tendrils that meet in the middle forming two pupils in each eye - already fully formed at birth.
🚨New baby animal alert 🚨
For the first time - 13 newborn four-eyed fish in the lab after months-long gestation period!!!! 😍🥹 #Anableps 🤓🐟
A close up view, with reflection, of the eyes of a ‘four eyed fish’ Though not really having four eyes, they do have the remarkable capability to see both above and below the water simultaneously. Anableps anableps is found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and the southern Caribbean Sea.
For this weeks #BlueSkyArtShow and the subject of #reflections
Four eyed fish (not really four eyes) can see both above and below the water simultaneously.
#anableps
#nature #photography #foureyedfish #macrophotography
#filmphotography
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Iris growing tendrils that meet in the middle, forming an upper and lower pupil. Note the shadow of lower pupil reflected in the water. There is a dark band of melanin pigmentation at the water line across the iris tendrils as well with shades of green in the skin around the eye.
Two four-eyed fish swimming side by side. They are positively buoyant - floating with just their eyes and tips of their snouts above the water like adorable crocodiles.
I just need to share these photos of our four-eyed fish #Anableps anableps I took yesterday in our fish room.
15/10 one of the best fishes 😍
🧪🐟 #MarineLife
We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.
#Guyane Wild Fish Society is a non-profit organisation based in Cayenne, #FrenchGuiana. Follow them on Facebook
Amazing image of #Anableps microlepis, locally called "Gros Yeux", meaning "big eyes".
#conservation #fish #ecosystems #fishkeeping #aquarium
