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What’s Washing Up: The marvelous purple crown jellyfish
These big lumps of jelly are totally harmless to humans but can still pack a powerful punch when it comes to their prey.
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Migration of the Mantas- Celebrating World Manta Day 2022!
The Maldives is home to the largest population of Manta Rays in the world with over 4900 individuals having been identified through the Manta Trust.
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Pseudomorphs: a Tale of the Bigfin Reef Squid
If you’re lucky, on a quiet, still morning in the lagoon at Gili Lankanfushi, you might be able to spot the glittering silhouettes of the bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana).
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Batesian Mimicry: the Four-Saddled Pufferfish and its Mimic Filefish Copycat
One of the biggest survival challenges faced by all types of organism across all the planet’s ecosystems, is to not get eaten.
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A Successful World Oceans Week 2022 at Gili Lankanfushi!
Gili Lankanfushi’s Marine Biology and Sustainability team hosted a week of Ocean-related activities, workshops and presentations for guests and hosts in celebration of World Ocean’s Week!
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The green barrel sea squirt: an amazing creature but a nuisance for our coral lines!
Here at Gili Lankanfushi we are constantly in the process of maintaining our Coral Lines Project in the lagoon.
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Spotted! Salp bloom at Gili House Reef
In the final week of April, we experienced an unusual and little-known phenomenon while snorkeling on our house reef – a salp bloom.
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Spotted! Juvenile Emperor Angelfish
The coral nursery at Gili Lankanfushi has become a haven for all kinds of juvenile marine creatures over the years.
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Spotted! Party decoration or nudibranch egg ribbon?
Nudibranchs (pronounced as ‘noodi-branks’) are sea slugs; a snail without a shell, or more specifically, mollusks belonging to the class of gastropoda.
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Black Sun Coral (Tubastrea micranthus): the future of coral reefs?
What if we told you that there are corals on our reef that are not susceptible to bleaching?