Articles by: Nijae

Bumblebee full of pollen sitting in a purple crocus at the yellow pistil in a green field in March 2021, Dortmund Westfalenpark, Germany.

Im Bann der Jahreszeiten: Raus, wenn du kannst

Raus, wenn du kannst, hat uns in doppelter Hinsicht durch diesen Winter getragen. Im Bann der Jahreszeiten diente es uns als vage Hoffnung auf eine wohligere Zukunft, doch wichtiger war sicher die nähere Umgebung zu erkunden, damit wir während dieses Wartens nicht durchgedreht sind. Jedenfalls noch nicht. Immer mal wieder […]

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Screenshot from video clip "Take a Minute to Relax": Golden Sweepers (Parapriacanthus ransonneti). Yellow/Golden Sweeper, Pygmy sweeper, Golden/Yellow Bullseye, and Golden Glassfish, just to name a few. Several species of Parapriacanthus are often huddled together under the same banner of “Glassfish”, as they're partially transparent. They have a rather compressed, silvery pink translucent body with a greenish golden head and large eyes, showing a faint dark horizontal streak starting from the upper part of their gill cover to below the rear end of their dorsal fin. They hurdle together and sweep in and out of the colourful reef with soft and hard corals in Komodo National Park in Indonesia.

Golden Sweeper: Parapriacanthus ransonneti

In this minute of relaxation, we would like to mesmerize you with the incredible collective performance of these small, but very interesting reef fish: Golden Sweeper or Parapriacanthus ransonneti. At first glance, Parapriacanthus ransonneti is just an unremarkable small reef fish that goes by many different names, depending on the […]

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