White-spotted pufferfish builds 2-meter sand circle to win a mate

Meet the fish who builds art to find a wife. A 4-inch architect spends 7–9 days crafting a 2-meter masterpiece—only for waves to erase it. Beauty built to vanish.
Male white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) carve geometric “crop circles,” funneling fine sand to a calm center where a female may lay her eggs. He fertilizes—then guards the clutch for ~6 days, and never reuses the nest.
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AI Transparency & Methods
• Visuals: Illustrative, AI-generated stills depicting a male pufferfish constructing a geometric sand nest and courtship/spawning (no real-event footage).
• Narration: AI-cloned voice of the creator (my own voice; not a third party).
• Intent: Educational visualization of well-documented biology—not news, not a real-world recording.
• Ethics/Rights: No person’s likeness or voice is impersonated; no animals were filmed or disturbed.
• Tools: Sora (imagery), ElevenLabs/Coqui TTS (my voice), standard editing/mixing.
• Labeling: Marked in YouTube Studio as “Altered or Synthetic.”
• Primary sources (science): see below.

Primary Sources (science)
• Kawase, Okata & Ito (2013), Scientific Reports — first study linking the circles to male pufferfish courtship; ridges/valleys + fine sand center influence female choice.
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• Mizuuchi et al. (2018), Scientific Reports — “simple rules” behind construction; ~10 cm males build ~2 m nests to attract mates.
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• Kawase et al. (2022), Scientific Data — 3D model of the “mystery circle” structure.
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• Kawase et al. (2014/2015), Bull. Marine Science — spawning behavior and paternal egg care (~5–6 days); males do not reuse nests.
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