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You might think it would be easy for a fish to swim between these small islands |
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But not so |
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You wouldn't find these little fish in deep water |
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The open ocean beyond their shallow reef is, in fact, a huge barrier |
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So how did all these fish come to be here |
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Colonising new reefs is a challenge faced by fish across the South Pacific but they have a simple solution |
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Once a year, thousands of groupers gather on the reefs |
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With the coming of the full moon, an extraordinary event unfoylds |
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They spawn |
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A female darts up and releases millions of eggs |
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quickly followed by the males, who jostle to fertilise them |