Black-tip reef shark
1 Jan 2016 by Evoluted New Media
A school of tropical clupeid fish exhibit synchronized behaviour to keep a healthy distance from a teenage black-tip reef shark.
A school of tropical clupeid fish exhibit synchronized behaviour to keep a healthy distance from a teenage black-tip reef shark. Sharks would cruise placidly for hours without so much as looking at the smaller fish, until, all of a sudden, they would strike and gobble up a mouthful of clupeids. The picture was taken on a shallow reef flat on Kuramathi Island in the Rasdhoo Atoll, Republic of Maldives.
This picture was subjected to an automated tone correction in Adobe Photoshop. No other post-processing was applied.
This image is part of the Royal Society Publishing photography competition – launched last year – celebrating the 350 years science publishing at the Royal Society.
Credit: Claudia Pogoreutz
