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Himantura Leopard Lab

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The experiment was done by observing the Himantura leopard and Dasyatis Americana interactions with a school of fishinside a 760,000 gallon tank at the Adventure Aquarium for 90 minutes.There were two Himantura leopard organisms and approximately five to six DasyatisAmericana.A school of fish was observed as three fishes that are approximately three inches away from each other. When either species of stingray came within five inches of the described school of fish, it was marked down if any of the fishes in the school separated from the school by swimming in an opposing direction of the other fishes of the school. If a fish separated from the school, it was marked down as “break apart” for the specie of stingray that caused the separation. …show more content…

By choosing theDasyatisAmericana as control specie, the experiment was able to control for factors such as size and the specie type. The results are intended to give insight into if color patterns act as a warning sign to the prey that the predator stingray is poisonous. Inside the aquarium, the Himantura leopardis not poisonous as a measure of protection to the other species in the fish tank.As the observer, I had no manipulation of the fish tank. There were variations that occurred during the experiment that could not be controlled as during the beginning of the observation, feeding was

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