It s almost impossible to catch a male angler fish.
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This fish creates large underwater crop circles to attract mate.
Divers first noticed the 6 5 foot wide 2 meter wide circular structures near japan s amami oshima island about 20 years ago.
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What creates mysterious circles on the seafloor.
Amazing little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles.
Underwater crop circles from japan are an amazing form of biological art.
When a male angler fish is born it is a tiny creature with no digestive system.
As such it must swim to find a female angler.
Pufferfish mating may explain mysterious circles on ocean floor video weirdest animal mating practices.
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Right around this time last year news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
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Scientists now know pufferfish make the formations to attract mates.
Little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles.
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The behavior was first documented by a photographer named yoji ookata who later returned with a film crew from the japanese.
For about 16 years nobody knew what made mystery underwater circles in the seafloor off a japanese island.
They don t exist for very long.
But no one knew how these so called mystery circles were constructed or what was creating them until now.
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