A recent study in the journal, Coral Reefs, says the picture (above) snapped at a depth of nearly 60 feet (18 meters), is the first ever taken of a tool-using fish in the wild.
A series of shots including the one above are thought to be the first photographic evidence from the wild of a fish using a tool. The series of photographs show a blasckspot tuskfish about to smash a cockle against a rock to expose its flesh for eating.
Professional diver Scott Gardner was just about out of air and swimming back to the surface when he heard an odd cracking sound nearby. Swimming over to investigate, he spotted the foot-long (30-centimeter-long) fish at work.
Scienctists have recently published a study on the images and related data, titled “Tool use in the tuskfish Choerodon schoenleinii?.” “Wild Fish Uses Tool“
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