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 asarcastic
fringehead
these fish are exceptionally quarrelsome they have to be to defend their living space an octopus inadvertently it's wandered into the fringe headsterritory
and that can't betolerated 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 andit's quick to get back to its shell a fringe head can never drop its guard there's too much competition