How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful

Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Visual resolution: the ability to see fine spatial detail SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: - Our merch: - Our book: - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Arcadi Garcia i Rius | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ TikTok | @minuteearth Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website | Apple Podcasts| REFERENCES ************** Caves, E. M., & Johnsen, S. (2021). The sensory impacts of climate change: bathymetric shifts and visually mediated interactions in aquatic species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1949), 20210396. Hodge, J. R., Santini, F., & Wainwright, P. C. (2020). Colour dimorphism in labrid fishes as an adaptation to life on coral reefs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1923), 20200167. Marshall, J.N. (2000). Communication and camouflage with the same ‘bright’ colours in reef fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 355(1401), 1243-1248. Marshall, J. (2017). Vision and lack of vision in the ocean. Current Biology, 27(11), R494-R502. Marshall, N. J., Cortesi, F., de Busserolles, F., Siebeck, U. E., & Cheney, K. L. (2019). Colours and colour vision in reef fishes: Past, present and future research directions. Journal of Fish Biology, 95(1), 5-38. Wilkins, L., Marshall, N. J., Johnsen, S., & Osorio, D. (2016). Modelling colour constancy in fish: implications for vision and signalling in water. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(12), 1884-1892.