Interesting Quotation
Found this in one of my texts, kinda neat: "A cost-benefit approach to territoriality requires that we consider the disadvantages of aggression, one of the most obvious of which is the time cost of the behaviour. A territorial surgeonfish, for example, chases rivals away from its algae-rich turf on a Samoan reef an average of 1900 times per day." So I guess we know why tangs are such bums in many cases. (Imagine doing the data collection for that research.)
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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