Need to do a research paper...

[Nate]

There is an ample amount of literature on the clownfish anemone relationships...I think that my suggestion to you would be Cleaning relationships/communication in general. You could even broaden it, and maybe do communication under the sea. This could be demonstrated using a small octopus, for colour change communication, or a fish approaching a cleaner shrimp and turning on its side, and opening its gill plate, or even clownfish dominance, and the shaking or vibrating behavior that they display when trying to climb the totem pole.

My suggestion to you would be to make it easy on yourself and pick something that info is readily avail. I did my final research paper on the aquarium industry and a business plan for an aquarium maintenance company (which I was already running) and I still had a hell of a time finding info.

Good luck

[muck]

I would suggest getting yer butt on a plane to Indonesia and viewing first hand some of these fish in the wild.



Edit: You know you want to...

[michika]

Originally Posted by muck

I would suggest getting yer butt on a plane to Indonesia and viewing first hand some of these fish in the wild.



Edit: You know you want to...

Do I ever.

[SeaShell]

There's also the communication aspects of the symbiotic relationship between the pistol shrimp and shrimp goby.....

[michika]

Originally Posted by SeaShell

There's also the communication aspects of the symbiotic relationship between the pistol shrimp and shrimp goby.....

Very true, but is there enough research for a 25 page paper?

[SeaShell]

I'm sure there is, if you use a 36 font.

[christyf5]

Haha, don't forget to double space.

Hey you don't have to concentrate on a single example, why not use all of them? That would certainly fill up your pages.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by michika

Very true, but is there enough research for a 25 page paper?

I say "yes" -- "Moehring, L.J. 1972. Communication systems of a goby shrimp symbiosis. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hawaii, 373 pp."

[michika]

That is a beast of a paper....I'm going to go find it now. Thanks Matt

I'm stuck between cuttlefish/octopi (sp?), and shrimp-fish relationships. I've abandoned the tang idea having searched and come up with little information.

I believe the preferred formatting is size 40, margins of 4", and an extra tall and bold font.

[michika]

Thanks for the heads up. I never wanted to do this class in the first place, so I feel like its a huge stretch for me to understand what is going on. Linking fish, which I know something about, with animal communications is helpful.

Clownfish seem to be the front runner right now because there is lots of research/books to be found so far.