July 18, 2011 Parrotfish

Parrotfish, Great Barrier Reef
Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock. Though sometimes destructive to individual corals, the fish's efforts are mostly beneficial. Without them, algal growth could smother the reef. Scarus frenatus

You can hear them crunching on the reef when you are snorkeling . It's a freaky sound.

Anyone else getting "I" less IOTDs recently?
Not even a link this time.
Great pic once dug out of the Cellar. I think that dentist/Avon lady works locally.

Whatcha mean Jim? You are not getting the image or?

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Cool pic. I always wanted to know what their teeth looked like.

So that's how clown make-up originated :cool: