Sarcastic Fringehead Fights For Territory | Life | BBC Earth

Producing offspring is just one challenge: finding food and a place to live out our future trials. The fish must brave the California coast. A wide range of species live here, but all this

life

means that competition for living space is intense. The 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 has inadvertently entered the

territory

of the fringe heads and that cannot be tolerated the octopus is impressive jab keeps the fringe head at bay there is more to this behavior than having a bad temper the

fringehead

needs the defendant's patch if he wants to get enough to eat and the octopus was competition the crabs are not the easiest morsels due to the lack of space to living there are constant boundary disputes, especially with other marginals and this one has to position oneself despite the most extravagant threats no one is willing to back down from success and is quick to return to his shell a marginal head can never let his guard down there is too much competition