I recently took this picture of my betta fish, Dawkins, hanging out on a leaf. I adore this fish! He's got a very low-key personality for a betta, lives peacefully with other fish, and hardly flares his gills at anything (a show of aggression.)
If you are wondering why some of his scales are blue while the rest of him is white, that's because he is a special breed of betta that changes colour with age. I plan to write more about this "marbling" gene in a future post, as there is much more to say about it.
I named my betta after evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins. His books encouraged my fascination with biology when I first read them as a high school freshman, and have a permanent place on my bookshelf.
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