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Learn about and witness the blowfish's puffing defensive behaviour
Starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus). Japanese puffer fish (Fugu rubripes). Body plans of representative tetraodontiforms.
See how sea creatures have evolved different adaptations to both catch prey and avoid becoming prey
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Learn about and witness the blowfish's puffing defensive behaviour
A puffer (family Tetraodontidae) swimming in its inflated and normal states.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See how sea creatures have evolved different adaptations to both catch prey and avoid becoming prey
Some fishes have adapted unusual structures and behaviours to catch prey and to avoid...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus).
Douglas Faulkner
Japanese puffer fish (Fugu rubripes).
M. Shirao/B.W. Halstead, World Life Research Institute
Body plans of representative tetraodontiforms.
From Spencer W. Tinker, Hawaiian Fishes (1944)
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