Behaviours for survival
The clown fish (as above) has many different behaviours, which help its survival. There is communication where the clown fish will use its small teeth to make a noise to communicate to other clown fish. This is an infant behavior. Another innate behaviour that clownfish do is being territorial. This is when they pick a certain place, stay there as it is comfortable place for them to be. Clownfish are also immune to certain stings because they have learnt to adapt to the annemome that they can live in for protection. This is a learnt imprinting behaviour. Clownfish also learn what fish are safe to be around as well as fish that may be a threat, again this is learnt and is operant conditioning. Clown fish also learn to ignore certain threats as the sea annemome they live in is the perfect protection for them, this is habitional behaviour. The reason why people study these creatures is mostly due to the fact that clownfish are very protective and are among the most unsocial species of fish to interact with other species. The questions that are asked is, why are they protective, why do clownfish stay close to each other in groups and close to sea annemome. These questions are seemingly more important than the fact these fish are trying to survive. Ethologists are studying the changes in the climate and what it is doing to the enviorment and how to stop it as well as contamination of the water from human activity. In addition to this, ethologist are also finding out how all of these factors affect the organisms behaviour, and in our case the clown fish, we can see that the reasons for its behavior is to just try and stay protected. The clownfish from all of its behaviours is not a fish trying to swim and live, but to survive to the last moment.