Mesmerizing video of an underwater crop circle being built

It just takes a male puffer fish to explain the true meaning of art

reply to post by stirling


Typical, even in nature the males of the species will move mountains, reshape deserts and modify the face of the earth just to get some tail.

Hehe...get it...fish...tail....

Wow! I had no idea that they did this.. Is this behavior of theirs' a complete mystery or are there theories as to why they do this? Good post!

maybe he's bored. it's very symmetrical. I wonder of he is thinking about the depth of each ridge... like he's doodling in the sand. maybe he's just a smart fish and trying to keep himself occupied with patterns... although I'd say that's very strange is this is a new development.

Originally posted by Fidelios
Further observation revealed that this “mysterious circle” was not just there to make the ocean floor look pretty. Attracted by the grooves and ridges, female puffer fish would find their way along the dark seabed to the male puffer fish where they would mate and lay eggs in the center of the circle. In fact, the scientists observed that the more ridges the circle contained, the more likely it was that the female would mate with the male.

Can't help but to wonder if this design affects energy as some believe crop circles do.

Maybe that's what attracts the females?

Its a natural process, on all levels from lower to the highest there is something like this. On this planet every animal has its own variations of mating rituals, birds, bees, animals, humans, its only been happening for only like... ever. In humans its plain and obvious like day, in fact so obvious and has been happening for so long that it does not register into the human conscious psyche, its in all effects mostly on a subconscious level. Females has a variation of the matting game as well, that to is obvious.

Symbolism is cross species not only humans express it, even something as simple as a pattern in the sand or a pattern on a piece of paper in you wallet has a symbolic power which is only overlapped over natural biology and process which have been ingrained into every animal be it a fish dog or a man ever since the first cell split in two and complex multi-celled multifaceted organisms were formed. From then on it was only compounded upon and expanded upon into the complex rituals you see today.

So yes, sure why not, it could be space jellyfish plasma lifeforms who created those crop circles, and aliens. Well it would be non compatible, but if compatible make sure to scan the sky's before going for any nightly moonwalks.

Originally posted by NuclearPaul
Can't help but to wonder if this design affects energy as some believe crop circles do.

Maybe that's what attracts the females?

Competence attracts females.

reply to post by gentledissident

True. But the real question may be. What un attracts them? Poor little fish guy would be having a lot less work if he figured that out. Besides patterned crop circles being built underwater on sediment and sand. The idea is preposterous. Almost as preposterous as them being built in crop fields, I pity the poor unsuspecting fools who end up there in the middle of the night in the most unsuspecting and unprecedented of times. Who knows what kind of weird # might go down.

To quote that ending of that op link again. These pufferfish in some ways there so like humans that they just may be the next thing to dolphins.

But once mating is completed, the male ceases his upkeep of the circle, and after the eggs hatch, he abandons the nest altogether. But after all that effort, you may ask, why not just reuse his earlier circle? The authors speculate that the male’s forceful wooing depletes the area of its fine sand particles, which are necessary for the next round of egg-rearing. And then it’s back to the drawing board for these amorous artists.

reply to post by Cyprex


Thanks for posting this thread. It always makes me appreciate that intelligence is found throughout nature.