Sarcastic Fringehead Fights For Territory | Life | BBC Earth

producing young is just one challenge finding food and somewhere to live our further trials fish must face the Californian Coast a wide range of species live here but all this

life

means competition for living space is intense old shells are highly prized and this one is occupied by a

sarcastic

fringehead

these fish are exceptionally quarrelsome they have to be to defend their living space an octopus inadvertently it's wandered into the fringe heads

territory

and that can't be

tolerated the octopus is impressive jab holds the fringe head at bay there is more to this behavior than being bad tempered the

fringehead

needs the defendants patch if it is to get enough to eat and the octopus was competition crabs are not the easiest of mouthfuls because of the shortage of living space there are constant boundary disputes especially with other fringe heads and this one has got to place despite the most extravagant threats neither is prepared to back down success and

it's quick to get back to its shell a fringe head can never drop its guard there's too much competition