Baby Clownfish Make an Amazing Journey Pixar Never Dreamed Of
You’ve probably seen Finding Nemo, right? It’s the touching story of a clownfish traveling a great distance to find his son, plus some Ellen DeGeneres schtick. New research, however, shows that in real life its the baby clownfish that make even more perilous journeys than the one shown in the film, traveling hundreds of miles through the open ocean to find new homes. Adult clownfish are about as far from adventurous as you get. They live out their lives crouching in host anemones that protect them from predators with their poisonous stings, which the clownfish are immune to. But researcher Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Global Change at the University of Exeter, and colleagues from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC COE CRS), Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) found that clownfish larvae migrate more than 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) between two coral reef systems off the coast of Oman. “This is