French scientists use artificial intelligence to identify the most and least aesthetic species of reef fish, raising questions about which endangeredspecies humans choose to protect. Click the link to read more.
that, among reef fish, the species that people perceive as most beautiful occupy a very small slice of the ecological pie. These aesthetic fish come from a common evolutionary lineage and play similar roles within the ecosystem. On the other hand, “ugly” species are ecologically and evolutionarily diverse and, on average, more threatened by extinction than their beautiful counterparts.
Mouquet and his colleagues left the next task to the AI. Doing its best impression of a human looking at pictures of fish, the machine-learning model evaluated 4,400 photos of the 2,417 most common reef species in the world. The scientists were left with a dataset far beyond the scope of any previous study on the subject.As soon as Mouquet and his colleagues began to parse through the data, patterns emerged.
On the other side of the spectrum, fishes with drab, un-patterned colors and elongated body shapes were judged to be the least beautiful. These species are not so easily characterized. They play many diverse roles in ecology and occupy many different habitats.The researchers found that while beautiful fish species tended to have overlapping ecological roles, many of the less-beautiful species occupied unique niches. This suggests that they may have a relatively high conservation value.
in the species that occupy and sustain them. Undoubtedly, the beauty of nature is an important tool to motivate people and governments to participate in conservation. But aesthetics also have the potential to blind us to the ecological value of a species. In the future, Mouquet hopes to apply his research methods to evaluate aesthetic preferences for other animal taxa. One future project might even evaluate landscapes.
“We hope that we can collectively minimize the impacts of our perception biases through better communication to the public, policy-makers and conservation NGOs,” he says.
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