![]() ![]() So we are going to be peeling back the layers one by one of fish eyeballs.Īmy Quinton Ewww, I think you just lost the audience, Kat. And it's important because knowing where fish has been and what it's eaten can make a big difference in how we go about trying to protect and restore their habitat. Kat Kerlin Well, it's a little more complicated than that, of course.Īmy Quinton I suppose we should unfold it? How would anyone know that was Miranda one day, just like, hey, I'm going to cut into the fish's eyeball to see what it's eaten for lunch? Miranda Bell Tilcock You can actually look in the fish eyes by peeling away these different layers that they are made up of and identify what habitats these fish were feeding on throughout their lives and what kind of food that they were consuming throughout their lives.Īmy Quinton OK, that is truly amazing. I learned this from Miranda Bell Tilcock with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. ![]() So think of it like tree rings, which can tell you the age of the tree and the climate where it grew. Kat Kerlin Well, to be even more specific, scientists called the lenses of a fish's eyeballs archival tissue. A fish's eyes really can tell you its life story, or rather its eyeballs canĪmy Quinton Its eyeballs? OK, that's a little gross, but I'm intrigued. And it turns out that is even more true for fish. I mean, with some people, it's like you can see the story of their life right there in their eyes. Doesn't that mean you can tell a person's intent by looking at their eyes or what they're thinking or feeling? Kat Kerlin Amy, have you ever heard people say that the eyes are the windows to the soul?Īmy Quinton Yeah. ![]()
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