That eye. That posture. That name.
The Slippery Dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) is a western Atlantic wrasse with a lot going for it, not least of which is being completely impossible to hold onto. New profile at Cernunnos Foundation.
#Wrasse #fish https://www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictures/slippery-dick/
Gutting a fish 101
https://commons.tube/videos/watch/6732d473-50c5-4caf-965e-bddb51dc01be
New research reports the foraging association between the piscivorous Japanese #amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata) and the zoobenthivorous Asian sheephead #wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus): doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70140 #JFB
Our Hawaiian Word for today is a beautiful Oʻahu place name, Kaʻaʻawa. It is often used as an example of a Hawaiian word with so many vowels in a row. But if you spell and pronounce it correctly, you will note that every vowel is separated by a consonant sound, the glottal stop or ʻokina. And it means the wrasse fish.
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