WASHINGTON: A Hawaiin fish has adapted the same set of muscles to climb steep waterfalls and to eat algae as well.
The Nopili rock-climbing goby is known to inch its way up waterfalls as high as 100 meters by using a combination of two suckers; one of these is an oral sucker also used for feeding on algae.
Richard Blob and colleagues from Clemson University, California, who filmed jaw muscle movement in these fish while climbing and eating, found that the overall movements were similar during both activities, the journal Public Library of Science ONE reported.
"We found it fascinating that this extreme behaviour of these fish, climbing waterfalls with their mouth, might have been co-opted through evolution from a more basic behaviour like feeding," said Blob, who led the study, according to an university statement.
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