Tags: fish, reproductive behaviour
Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in public science discourse:
"So, fish have a strategy called broadcast spawning where they lay hundreds of thousands of eggs, each individual, and just let those drift and hope that some of them reach a suitable environment and survive."
Dr Nandini Ramesh
Nandini Ramesh (postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Berkeley) was talking on an episode of BBC's 'Science in Action'
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