New fish species accidentally discovered on film

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A collaboration between a television show and marine scientists led to the discovery of three species of fish in the waters of the Kermadec Islands which were not thought to live in the area.

The species were spotted after scientists spent hours reviewing the raw footage a television crew filmed at the remote islands, 750 km northeast of New Zealand. The unusual collaboration between a film company and the now under threat Auckland science department at Massey University is the subject of a recently published scientific paper. 

The species of fish captured on film had been thought to live 700 to 1300km away from the islands. They include the atoll butterfly fish, the bluestreak cleaner wrasse and the halfmoon grouper. 

A student at the university spent eight weeks watching samples of the footage. There was too much footage for each frame to be looked at, so from the 106 videos and 3439 shots of supplied raw footage, she randomly sampled 22 videos and 1074 shots, painstakingly identifying fish species in each of the shots. 

She found not only three fish species unknown to the area but also fish behaviour between species that may not see each other in other places in the world.

Source: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/16/1079198/new-species-accidentally-discovered-on-film

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I'm sorry. 

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1 minute ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

[Helxig 45,335]

7 minutes ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

Yiiiikes okay please keep take the casual racism somewhere else!

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14 minutes ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

Jesus way to bring the tone of the thread down 

[littlepotter 76,610]

15 minutes ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

Blatant stupidity aside, do you really think China is the only nation that eats... fish?

[Miky 9,587]

7 minutes ago, Helxig said:

Yiiiikes okay please keep take the casual racism somewhere else!

Chinese =/= race.

Critisizing the Chinese government and officials for handling the situation the way they did is absolutely ok.

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14 minutes ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

Since when blatant racism was okay up in here? 

[littlepotter 76,610]

2 minutes ago, Flopplause said:

He may have been insenstive with his wording, but let's not deny China's culture is among some of the world's cultures that don't have certain ethics bound to what types of meat are acceptable and which aren't. Putting your head in the sand isn't gonna solve overfishing or gonna solve the rammifications from viruses spawning at wetmarkets.

ps: I'm Asian myself, I can decide for myself what I find racist or not 

What country or part of Asia are you from if you don't mind me asking  I'm Asian too but have no authority to decide what's racist against Chinese people.

And the point is that that was a completely unnecessary, irrelevant, out of place comment. 

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1 minute ago, Miky said:

Chinese =/= race.

Critisizing the Chinese government and officials for handling the situation the way they did is absolutely ok.

And what the **** does that have to do with a new species of ****ing fish 

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18 minutes ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

How long until China eats them alive, or grilled, or raw and place them next to the dead dogs?

So you're gonna pretend you never had sushi?

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1 minute ago, Miky said:

Chinese =/= race.

Critisizing the Chinese government and officials for handling the situation the way they did is absolutely ok.

He didn't say the Chinese government though. He said China meaning as a whole. 

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This thread went south real quick

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1 minute ago, Chromatic Lover said:

He didn't say the Chinese government though. He said China meaning as a whole. 

There is this figure of speech called synecdoche totum pro parte.

Look it up. Saying a country did something does not literally mean every single person.

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21 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

What country or part of Asia are you from if you don't mind me asking  I'm Asian too but have no authority to decide what's racist against Chinese people.

And the point is that that was a completely unnecessary, irrelevant, out of place comment. 

I'm mixed, I'm partially Philipino, Indonesian, Chinese and partially Dutch. I was born in the Netherlands/live in the Netherlands, but I have family in Indonesia and in the Philippines.

Yeah we have no authority to decide for others what's racist against Chinese culture, but we can point out certain facts. Just said what I said because people can decide to say what I said is racist too, which it isn't. I have already have had some people evade me because of my Asian looks due to this crisis...which I rather regard as racist as opposed tho his unnecessary insensitively phrased post.