At the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Japan, mysterious circular patterns in the sand are found. They are made with such artistic skill that they leave no doubt about their handicraft. To many divers, these unusual patterns resemble crop circles drawn by aliens. However, who creates the circles on the ocean floor? Is this the work of representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization?
Yohji Ookata has been diving and underwater photography for nearly five decades, but this discovery truly amazed him. Diving near the Lyceum Islands in order to take pictures of coral gardens, the Japanese accidentally stumbled upon a voluminous sand pattern at a depth of twenty-five meters. It was a perfectly even circle with a diameter of about seventy centimeters with undulating ridges diverging from the center.
Ookata had never experienced such miracles before, so he immediately decided to resort to the help of a professional film crew to capture the mysterious underwater artist on video. Soon, the cameras submerged to the bottom actually recorded it. It turned out that sandy circles on the seabed were drawing … a small puffer fish - the one whose poisonous meat is considered an exquisite delicacy.
The Japanese found that the males of these fish painstakingly draw these patterns in the sand, touching the ocean floor with their fins. Each such circle is the product of one individual fish. These amazing designs are necessary for males to attract females for mating purposes. Females swim and choose the best quality circles, after which they lay eggs in the very center of intricate patterns, which the males fertilize. Future offspring will be protected from sea currents here - this will be facilitated by a complex combination of grooves and ridges on the underwater structure. And the more skillful the design of such "architecture", the more partners the male can attract.
The outer part of the incubator consists of two circles, the rays of one of which are directed clockwise, and the rays of the other are directed against. Amazingly, some galaxies in the universe rotate in the same way. Thus, scientists now have to determine why such a primitive creature was endowed with evolution with the concept of mathematics and even, perhaps, astronomy. Why does the puffer fish keep in its memory the archetype of an even circle and reproduce it with the highest accuracy?
Scientist Vasile Droj even suggests that the whole secret of the drawing is in the creation of a certain energy accumulator, due to which the maximum energy is concentrated in the center of this mysterious construction of sand, which, apparently, contributes to the faster and more successful maturation of the offspring. Protection from sea currents has nothing to do with it; for this it would be more effective just to dig a depression on the ocean floor. But how are primitive fish endowed with such fantastic capabilities?..
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