Viewing / tourism (2010s band)
TicketedSafari, hide, cage-dive or parade tickets in the 2010s often sat in the tens to hundreds of USD per person -- a dated band, not a live quote.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Speed27
Intelligence36
Range34
Resilience54
Cultural impact52
Ecological role43
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Quick answers
Is Nemo an ocellaris or a percula?
Pixar Nemo is styled on Amphiprion ocellaris (this atlas type). Shops still mix ocellaris and percula under one common name.
How does sex change work?
A group is a female, a breeding male and non-breeders. If the female dies, the male changes sex. The film missing-mother plot skipped that rule.
Did Finding Nemo increase wild take?
Several trade analyses reported a demand spike after 2003. Captive-bred ocellaris later absorbed much of the legal market in the US and EU.
Why do anemones not sting their fish?
The fish mucus lacks the cues that trigger nematocysts, and acclimation behaviour matters. It is not a cartoon handshake.
What happens when a host bleaches?
Fish may linger on a dying anemone and then vanish from that site. Reef heatwaves are a housing crisis for the genus.
Are clownfish good parents in the film sense?
Males tend the nest of demersal eggs. The biology is paternal care, not a transoceanic search.
Money around the clownfish is regional even when the brand is global.
Figures are dated educational bands -- not live quotes and not a buying guide.
Encounter bands
Conflict / livestock loss
Local & episodicPredation and crop-raid compensation schemes (US, Kenya, India) published per-head bands that changed with election cycles.
Fishery / take value
CommodityWhere the type is a catch (tuna, salmon, fugu), 2000s-2020s ex-vessel or auction bands were the political number -- not a supermarket tag.
Captive / zoo husbandry
InstitutionalAnnual keep for a large mammal or a specialist bird in AZA/EAZA reports ran to five or six figures USD in the 2010s.
Enforcement / reserve ops
PublicRanger, observer and census costs are socialised; they do not appear on a viewing ticket.
Regions
North America
ESA listings, Parks Canada, Alaska runs and Churchill buggies are the English-language field the localLens keeps returning to.
United Kingdom and Ireland
RSPB, NatureScot, reintroductions and a dense NGO press shape how this atlas type is taught in British English.
European Union / wider Europe
Habitats Directive, IWC delegations and returning wolves sit beside UK practice without being identical.
Range-state core
The biological centre of the clownfish -- often not English-speaking -- still writes the Red List.
Australia and New Zealand
DOC, Phillip Island, Taiaroa Head and kakapo-style ICU projects are the southern English conservation dialect.
Global trade desks
CITES, ICCAT, IWC and auction houses price the animal whether or not a local language has a word for it.
Key range numbers
27Atlas speed
54Atlas resilience
52Atlas cultural impact
43Atlas ecological role
Field programmes
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Host-reef rules and bleaching response.
Indonesian / Philippine fisheries
Aquarium-trade permitting -- uneven.
MAC (Marine Aquarium Council)
Historical certification attempt for the trade.
Pixar / Disney education PSAs
Post-film leave-him-on-the-reef messaging.
Public aquaria breeding labs
Ocellaris protocols that seeded the hobby farms.
Coral Triangle Initiative
Regional reef politics that include ornamental take.
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