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Naomi Pleizier - Behaviour, Stress, and the Checkered Pufferfish. Mangrove ecosystems are important foraging grounds, shelters, and nurseries for many fish species, despite their harsh conditions. In addition to natural challenges such as predators and drastic environmental fluctuations caused by tides, mangrove residents must cope with the serious threat of habitat destruction by humans. We studied several key survival behaviours of checkered pufferfish, a common mangrove fish, to determine...