Sunday, 7 September 2014

Archer fish shoots its prey (video)

Check out this amazing video of the archer fish shooting insects. Amongst the difficulties the archer fish has to overcome are: refraction at the air/water interface, which distorts the position of the insect; & the the necessary trajectory of the water stream through the air.

/ insect glow beetle fire fly firefly refraction trajectory water air aquatic river light /

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