Mixed signals between Rams and Headstanders

[wetmanNY]

I'm watching a small batch of young (<1 inch) German Rams in quarantine on my desk with a couple of Spotted Headstanders, Chilodus punctatus also small.

Well of course the Headstanders spend all day with their snouts tilted down...

But for a Ram, a down-tilted snout means I'm definitely teed off here, pal!, so the little Rams are tilting down and drifting forward threateningly.

But that doesn't register as a threat to Chilodus, til pop! Jeez what was that all about?

 

[slipknottin]

you needs to go play in the snow me thinks.

 

[wetmanNY]

"well, all right, but you come right back inside if you start to get apple-cheeked."

--Marge Simpson