True Facts: Fish That Suck
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Thanks to:
Dr Peter Wainwright, UC Davis
Dr Brooke Flammang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dr Udo Savalli, Arizona State University
Dr Jamie Seymour, James Cook University
Dr Shinji Sugiura, Kobe University
& all the scientists who have made their research Open Access.
Josh Blank, https://www.instagram.com/joshblankphotography/
Save Our Seas, https://saveourseas.com/
Enrique Martínez, Manta Scuba
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Fun fact: Remoras will actually eat the feces of the fish the are riding. They wait till it poops and swarm it, then go back to riding it until dinner.
You always make me laugh. You’re hilarious Frank thanks
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This is the weird stuff you get into when you decide not to evolve into land animals.
That’s why we gotta keep them down. If you see a fish trying to evolve, EAT IT.
@ZaPhobos i think for sure of all the animals on the earth the one that would be the freakiest if they evolved to the level we have would be found in the sea. they are freaky enough as is.
@ZaPhobosThat’s also how I handled my Pokemon
decisions decisions
It’s like my granddad always used to say, “when you don’t have to worry about gravity, you can get into all kinds of weird stuff”
Jerry was oddly tame this time. Frank, what did you do to him?
Who do you think touched the stinging cells?
He was concentrating on those as– er, asterisks
Jerry was too busy rearranging coins with his colon.
@Equal Rights Lefts & Uppercuts.huh 💀💀
@Equal Rights Lefts & Uppercuts. 🤣
Imagine you’re just vibing in the ocean and a living vacuum just comes by and hoovers you up 💀
Then it bites you with it’s second set of jaws
Hot
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@Dexuzmari what
I saw the beetle who crawled out the frog somewhere else this week, too. He’s quite popular with the science hippies this week.
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Same, saw the diagram on my FB feed about a day or two ago. Glad I’m not the only one.
I saw it on Ze’s instagram this morning.
SciShow covered it when the paper came out, but not quite as funny.
Funny! But not Ze Frank funny 😀
same !!!
“This is because most fish suck. They also use suction to feed!”
Took me a good 5 second to laugh
😂😂😂
John Oliver would agree
It’s taking me 5mins and counting…
Additional fun fact: birds often see colors different to how we see them, sometimes off our spectrum entirely. So the “yellow lipstick” at the end probably appears a great deal different/more vibrant to birds than it does to us.
Did one of them tell you this?
Some women have the same thing though no men cos it only occurs when you have 2 x chromosomes.
Like how a bee sees more UV?
@CiaranMen have a debuff with higher color blindness rates. Feels bad man.
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That Cormorant pulling a Ramora off a Whale shark has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Have always had a fascination for cormorants (since reading The Story of Ping about captive cormorants being used to fish on the Yangtze River). They just got a whole lot more fascinatinger!
@Yvette Worrall, Cormorants were also featured in The Island of the Blue Dolphin, a book (novel) I read as a teen.
@suzi q Oh my goodness both of those are blasts from the past!
@Emily Smirle , Do you recommend The Story of Ping? I haven’t read it. I read the other one several times. I think it’s based on San Nicholas Island, off the coast of Ventura. People can’t go there. It’s a military property/air base.
I know, bros got some breath control huh
Who knew sucking at something was such a valuable skill? And remoras take “stage 5 clinger” to a whole new level. Also, don’t get me started on that beetle. Talk about a fantastic voyage.
If sucking were that important to humans, I’d be set for life.
ER Doctor, “You got a fish stuck on your crotch!?”
@Genjis51 Who says it isn’t?
When the jaws open wide and there’s more jaws inside, that’s a moray!
Best part is the Xenomorph from Alien was not inspired by Morays – the director thought that was too weird for evolution to ever come up with IRL.
The *song!* 🤣🤣🤣
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Wasn’t hard to hear that in lyric format ❤😂