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At night we've put out these lights
at the back of the boat to attract small
larval animals, planktonic animals
they see light for the first time
well artificial light for the first time, and presumably
thery get confused on the idea that
it might the moon, or the stars
and they circle, they're very small
for the most part planktonic, larval
stages of crabs, a few isopods
looking around for an easy meal, and chasing them
are fish, and some of the larger
animals like carnivorous shrimp
and there's also krill in the water
and I've taken a few samples, and I"m going to show you some now
(preparing samples)
In here we've got ouur juvenile eel, or larval eel
commonly referred to as a Glass Eel
and you can see, basically see straight through it, you can see the vertebrate
you can even see some of gut contents
little line from the mouth, going through to the
the ***, as this moves,
it forms an iridescent
sheen, and you can see it rippling
down the body as the eel moves its body
(eel footage)
In here, we've got a small predatory shrimp
that's obviously been chasing
the smaller animals that have been running around in the lights
now this particular one is
(scientific name) it's a
quite ornate species
very pretty to look at, we've actually been collecting a lot of
these on the reefs recently, so I'm
actually quite surprised to see it up in the water column
swimming around chasing the smaller animals in the light
It's not just the large animals that we find in interesting, even the
microscopic hold a whole new world to be discovered. It's not just the large animals that we find in interesting, even the
microscopic hold a whole new world to be discovered.