Question

The sardines are not the jellies’ resource population or consumer population, but they still caused the jelly population in North Benguela to increase. How did this happen?

Answer 1

Meet the bearded goby, a six-inch-long fish that lives in toxic mud, eats jellyfish, lasts for hours without oxygen, and has saved a coastal African ecosystem from a nightmare fate. Over the last several decades, as other fish populations off the coast of the Namibia collapsed, jellyfish and bacteria populations exploded — a condition widely […]