Researchers have figured out how clownfish make “pop-pop-pop” noises at each other. The secret turns out to be an unusual tooth-clacking mechanism that scientists had never before documented.
Plenty of fishes make noises, explains Eric Parmentier of the University of Liège in Belgium. Most species either scrape bones together or vibrate air-filled swim bladders.
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