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– [Narrator] Nassau groupers are solitary a lot of the yr.
Replica brings them collectively.
Some will journey a whole bunch of miles.
They arrive in December and January when Caribbean waters are coolest.
– [Expert] They begin speaking to one another.
They’ve totally different indicators, totally different languages, or totally different phrases or vowels for the totally different behaviors that they conduct.
Solely after they combination to spawn.
– [Narrator] They additionally talk with stylized actions and shifting patterns on their pores and skin.
– They appear cool already.
They acquired their stripes and every part, however when it is getting near spawning, they’re like attempting on totally different outfits.
Some flip white, some flip black.
– [Narrator] Extra groupers arrive.
The refrain swells in quantity.
(groupers droning) Some wait on the ocean flooring, conserving their power.
– [Expert] They want to synchronize to one or two nights.
Everyone has to have their eggs and their sperm prepared for that second.
They’re speaking.
Are we able to spawn?
Do you suppose we will spawn now?
– [Narrator] As their numbers develop, they rise from the ocean flooring every night as if rehearsing.
As the complete moon approaches, the performances grow to be extra refined.
– The place the actual enjoyable is, is within the courtship previous to spawning.
– [Expert 2] Every has their personal suite of behaviors and sounds that every one come collectively into this courtship dance.
– [Narrator] If they’re prepared, they alter into matching costumes.
– As you get nearer to spawning, all of them select this tuxedo it seems to be wish to me, black, black, black with a bar over the eye and a white stomach.
We name it bi-color section.
It is like a vaudeville act.
Males preventing over females, making sounds at one another.
– [Narrator] Males wrestle across the females, the noise builds, however evening after evening, they maintain again.
Then one evening, the temperature is true.
The moonlight is true.
Most significantly, there’s a important mass of fish.
The refrain reaches a crescendo.
(groupers droning) Then, silence.
Spawning has begun.
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