{"id":31542,"date":"2020-06-30T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/?post_type=custom_visuals&#038;p=31542"},"modified":"2020-07-09T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:35:36","slug":"hiding-in-plain-light","status":"publish","type":"custom_visuals","link":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/videos-visuals\/hiding-in-plain-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in Plain Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vimeo responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hiding in Plain Light\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/419105767?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s one of those things that everyone recognizes, but no one really knows the name for: the quivering light cast by sunlight through waves that makes a netlike pattern on the bottom of lakes, oceans, or swimming pools. The phenomenon is called water caustics, and it may help some fish on coral reefs escape predators.<\/p>\n<p>Reefs are hotbeds of biodiversity, which means lots of species and lots of hunting. Naturally, prey fish have developed diverse strategies to flee, fight, or freeze when faced with predators, and, with their study of caustics, researchers may have found one more. A <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.2453\">recent study<\/a> by Sam Matchette, a PhD candidate in biology at the University of Bristol in England, and others, indicates the phenomenon seems to obscure prey fish from predators, delaying attacks and buying prey precious seconds to get away. Here\u2019s how some reef fish might use these wavering lines of light for protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of those things that everyone recognizes, but no one really knows the name for: the quivering light cast by sunlight through waves that makes a netlike pattern on the bottom of lakes, oceans, or swimming pools. The phenomenon <\/p>\n<div class=\"excerpt\"><span>&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31543,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,169],"tags":[],"acf":{"hero_video_url":null,"hero_video_caption":"","deck":"A natural phenomenon of light and waves helps prey fish use stealth when running from predators.","authors_group":[{"by_group":"by","contributors_group":[26333,15435]}],"word_count_override":"2 min","podbean1":"","podbean2":"","redirect":"","geolocation":{"address":"Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Australia","lat":-18.2870668,"lng":147.6991918,"zoom":4,"place_id":"ChIJO3EsgkYU32sR2jyDNkFXKhk","name":"Great Barrier Reef","state":"Queensland","state_short":"QLD","country":"Australia","country_short":"AU"},"related":[21504,29174],"twitterimage":31545,"facebookimage":31544,"twitterdescription":"","edited":"","factchecked":"","code":"","no_old_story_flag":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/custom_visuals"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31743,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31542\/revisions\/31743"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/29174"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}