What do fish brains, weight loss, and the maximum human lifespan have in common?
Reprinted from the September 2007 issue of the Alumnae/i Community Update eNewsletter You just finished the third year of the Summer Science Program at SLC, where students and faculty members work together on an ongoing research project. What are you studying? I’m looking at the energy decisions of two species of blennies—small fish that live in holes in coral reefs. My project grew out of Ray Clarke’s study of the habitat choices of these fish. The species are very similar and eat much the same food, but one lives at the bottom of the reef and the other lives higher up. Through a series of experiments Ray found that both species would rather live in the top part of the reef, because there’s more food there. But one species is much more aggressive than the other and will fight for—and win—the more desirable spot. The aggressive species has a much higher metabolism, so it needs almost twice as much food as the other fish. It couldn’t survive if it lived on the bottom of the reef. Becaus
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