‘Ugly’ Reef Fish Are Most In Need Of Conservation Support

‘Ugly’ Reef Fish Are Most In Need Of Conservation Support

Source: Eurasia Review

6/8/2022

‘Ugly’ Reef Fish Are Most In Need Of Conservation Support

What’s the relationship between people’s perception of beauty and animals’ conservation needs? According to a machine-learning study by Nicolas Mouquet at the University of Montpellier, France, and colleagues, publishing June 7th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, the reef fishes that people find most beautiful tend to be the lowest priority for conservation support.

The researchers asked 13,000 members of the public to rate the aesthetic attractiveness of 481 photographs of ray-finned reef fishes in an online survey and used this data to train a convolutional neural network. They then used the trained neural network to generate predictions for additional 4,400 photographs featuring 2,417 of the most encountered reef fish species.

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