A clownfish’s last stand

Mongabay
Sep 13, 2026, 8:11 pm225 ptsTop
Twenty years ago, scientist and Mongabay board member Debby Ng joined a team documenting life at Terumbu Bayan, a coral reef south of Singapore that was about to be reclaimed. There she encountered a pair of false clownfish living in an anemone. The mother was unusually aggressive, even for a species known to…

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