The Fish That Does It All: Cleaning Coral, Making White Sand And Even Changing Gender!
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 by eNature
http://wild.enature.com/blog/the-fish-that-does-it-all-changing-colors-shape-and-even-gender/It's a Bird! It's a Fish! It's Supermale!
It's the parrotfish, a fish that looks like a bird! But it's no ordinary fish: it's a female, it's a male, it's a supermale! Why there are even supermale Queen and supermale Princess Parrotfish. And not only that, these strange, bird-like, gaudily colorful fish travel in herds and graze on plants.
So how can one fish have the beak and colors of a parrot, behave like a cow, and change from female to male and from male to supermale in a single lifetime? For the parrotfish, it's all part of an ordinary day in the coral reefs.