Short Marine Animal Behavior Clips
Most of my underwater videography is on YouTube, where I usually upload clips a few minutes long, with a narration explaining the biology of the animals I show my viewers. Some of the shorter clips I film which don’t fit into such a story but which are still interesting (I think) I put on Twitter, which has a very nice community of marine bio scientists and citizen-science experts. So that these clips don’t get lost in the ever-growing time-line of tweets, I assembled some of them here. Enjoy:
Arothron manilensis, Manila puffer, feeding on a sea urchin (ID please @echinoblog ), which is trying to escape, despite being already half-eaten. This shows how sturdy echinoderms are. #fish #echinoderm #predator #prey #AnimalBehavior #Dauin #Philippines pic.twitter.com/1zUR5le1HZ
— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) October 16, 2022
#Crab hiding behavior, at night, in response to my video light. #NegrosIsland, #Philippines. There are so many animals under the sand which divers during the day never see. pic.twitter.com/v0priaamx0
— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) October 15, 2022
Another highly camouflaged decorator #crab, Dauin, Philippines. Fashionably wearing hydroids. ID please! #scuba #invert pic.twitter.com/IBgEJLXWgm
— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) October 14, 2022
This #crab is fully hectic, being the most badass crab in the seagrass on Negros Island in the Philippines, and what do you do? Looking at a crab on Twitter. #scuba #crustacean #invert
More #underwater video: https://t.co/9qJNiRPzqY pic.twitter.com/gZtbE72kQe— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) September 23, 2022
What kind of #crab person are we looking at here? Negros Island, Philippines, at night, ~10 cm diameter, 10 m deep. Thanks in advance! #IDmissing #invert #crustacean pic.twitter.com/7JGsPrO7mz
— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) September 3, 2022
