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Cute puffer fish6/23/2023 ![]() Tennis player Bobby Riggs was something of a puffer fish himself - an unimpressive little man with a knack for blowing himself up to three times his actual size. Everyone blamed aliens at the time, but I now suspect those were made by puffer fish. Seen from above, this looked rather like a 1990s crop circle. Brushing with its fins and tail, it creates a perfectly symmetrical circular pattern, which it decorates with shells. The male puffer fish, a rather drab little fellow, attracts a mate by drawing complex geometric designs in the sand of the seabed. The most impressive segment in this episode, the first of a four-part series, featured a fish that seemed nondescript at first sight. To the human eye, the electronic model with cameras embedded in its head might seem completely convincing. Veteran wildlife film-maker John Downer and his team send robot puffer fish, sea lions, crabs and octopuses on investigative missions - and the real animals never get spooked.Ī female sperm whale came over all maternal when a ten-foot spy baby was sent swimming towards her. One of the many fascinating insights revealed by Spy In The Ocean (BBC1) is that animals aren't affected by the 'uncanny valley'. Psychologists term this the 'uncanny valley' effect. It's a Christmas film with a computer-generated golem that sounds like Tom Hanks and looks like his reanimated corpse.įew actors are less scary than the real Hanks, but 2004's festive atrocity The Polar Express is frightening because the CGI figure of the train's jolly conductor isn't quite human. The creepiest movie ever made is not The Exorcist or some splatterfest of over-hormonal teenagers getting disembowelled with chainsaws. ![]()
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