If you saw the movie Finding Nemo, then you probably recognize the colorful fish in this picture. The Marlin character in the movie was based on fish like these. Commonly referred to as clownfish, the...If you saw the movie Finding Nemo, then you probably recognize the colorful fish in this picture. The Marlin character in the movie was based on fish like these. Commonly referred to as clownfish, they are shown here swimming around the waving tentacles of animals called sea anemones. Sea anemones are predators that kill any prey that come too close by injecting poison with their tentacles. The anemones don’t harm the clownfish, perhaps because they are coated with mucus.
