Ripples
I don't know much about the behavioural patterns of fish. Some of them are very pretty. Some of them are very tasty. But other than to eat or admire, the paths of fish and I cross but rarely (as though we live in two different worlds). I passed by the pond I'm given to pass now and then and noticed a large number of fish lined over the pebbled shallows at the edge of the pond. I was curious as to what they were doing there (sunbathing?) so I tried to get a little closer to observe their behaviour
Without meaning to, I startled the fish, and immediately they all turned tail and fled. The curious thing was that they didn't form a shoal, but instead swam in a near perfect semicircle away from each other and from me, as though I'd accidentally caused a ripple in the water, but of fish instead of water.
Perhaps it's common behaviour, and perhaps it's a common sight, but It was something I'd never seen before, and thus special to me.
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The world has such incredible 'wow' experiences for us and I'm constantly amazed by how little I know. An example: a beautiful spider's web last year in our garden which we left alone because it had eggs on it. When they hatched, they didn't float away on threads of silk, a la Charlotte's Web - they all stayed together on the web. We found out by accident that any vibration felt by them through the web would cause them to scuttle away in a perfect circle by all spokes of the web and, after a few seconds where no danger was perceived, they'd all wander back into the middle and cuddle up together. Fabulous.