This is a snippet from a longer video. Check out the related video for more on sunfish from Burke Collections Manager Katherine Maslenikov.
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00:00So they have this really crazy behavior.
00:02Most people have seen a sunfish up at the surface,
00:04and they'll be on their side like this,
00:06and it kind of looks like they're basking in the sun.
00:09And they'll flap these fins around,
00:10kind of calling attention to themselves.
00:12And birds will come and land on them
00:14and eat their parasites.
00:16So this can be like a 10-foot raft
00:19out at the surface of the ocean.
00:21So birds have this nice little spot to hang out
00:24and yeah, clean off the parasites of the sunfish.