In the summer of 2015 we began an intensive, long-term nighttime survey campaign in the Gulf of Eilat and Aqaba, Red Sea, to build a calendar of the reproduction of corals and other coral-reef dwellers (Shlesinger et al. 2016, 2017, Shlesinger and Loya 2018, 2019). By the end of 2019 we had spent 280 nights in the water, snorkeling, free diving, and frantically swimming, to witness and document every nocturnal activity during the major coral reproduction season, which spans June-September.

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谁在夜间砸礁？一个神秘的夜晚

2015 年夏天，我们在埃拉特湾和红海亚喀巴开始了一项密集、长期的夜间调查活动，以建立珊瑚和其他珊瑚礁居民的繁殖日历（Shlesinger 等人，2016 年、2017 年） , Shlesinger 和 Loya 2018, 2019)。到 2019 年底，我们在水中度过了 280 个晚上，浮潜、自由潜水和疯狂游泳，见证和记录了主要珊瑚繁殖季节（6 月至 9 月）的每一次夜间活动。