The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches

The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches

By Lucy Sherriff

Source: BBC News

4/19/2024

Credit: Karen Martin

Millions of small fish fling themselves on Californian beaches to have sex – strictly under the full or new Moon. This incredible mating ritual is threatened, but citizen scientists are diligently working to save it.

On a Southern Californian beach in the middle of the night, a citizen scientist stood observing thousands of fish having sex. "Unruly thousands, all making noise," they duly jotted down. "Looked like some post-apocalyptic marine Mad Max."

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