14. Ugly Toadfish Sings “Love Songs”
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Erica Staaterman, a bioacoustician at the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management heard during her research something strange. It was actually a toadfish singing its love song: “As we were going through and seeing these calls in our analysis software, we started to notice these trends that each of these individual fish seemed to be composing their call differently,” she said. This is a Bocon fish, and although its looks are “mucousy and squishy,” it is quite popular with his songs!