Leap onto land saves fish from being eaten
University of New South Wales, March 14, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314111116.htm
"Fish on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga have
evolved the ability to survive out of water and leap
about on the rocky shoreline..."
The paper is:
Ord, T.J., Summers, T.C., Noble, M.M. and Fulton, C.J.,
2017. Ecological Release from Aquatic Predation Is
Associated with the Emergence of Marine Blenny
Fishes onto Land. The American Naturalist, 189(5), pp.000-000.
Abstract: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691155
PDF file: http://www.eerc.unsw.edu.au/ord/ord_etal2017.pdf
Yours,
Paul H.