Anonymous asked:
BIG FIN SQUID PLEASEE!!!!!
And there you go! A little bit of a bigger animal fact, I know that the Magnapinna squids are a big favourite of many so I hope you will like this!
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They take part in diurnal vertical migration, which means they dive to deeper water (300 to 500 meters deep) in the morning and ascend back to shallower water in the evening. They do this to follow their prey, which also migrates vertically; bigeye tunas’ migration is linked to the deep scattering layer, a layer of different marine animals!
A YEAR OF FISH FACTS!
I shall dedicate this one to my very favourite fish, my true love:
Their current native range is the east coast of North America, but they were also endemic to the Baltic Sea before they went extinct in the 20th century. There have been attempts to replant it though! It’s a fish that enjoys living alone or in small groups and they migrate up rivers to spawn.
sluttysoulcowboy asked:
just discovered pelican eels :D
And boy, what fish they are!
Also called a gulper eel, its most recongisable feature is its massive jaws! They’re estimated to be up to a quarter of the eel’s length and look disproportionately large compared to its small body and thin tail. Their jaws allow the eels to swallow prey much larger than themselves, and some footage suggests they may also use their large jaws as a defensive measure, helping them appear larger and threatening.
700
FISH
FACTS!!!!
Wowza! Took a while, since last year I took some breaks… but I did it! 1000 fish facts just keeps getting closer, eh? It should be here in the later months of this year…. but! An elephant only gets eaten piece by piece! Let’s get to 800 first! ;)
Besides its ability to give electric shocks, another trick up the sleeve of the whitemargin stargazer is two venomous spines just above its pectoral fins! They’ll use their venom to defend themselves against predators, and to subdue prey.
They’re anglerfish which have adapted to using their pelvic fins as legs, using them to walk on the seafloor instead of swimming!
They live so deep down, between 600 and 1 200 meters deep (2 000 and 3 900 feet), that having a gas-filled swim bladder like other fish wouldn’t be very effective. To maintain buoyancy, blobfish instead have a large portion of their flesh consist of a gelatinous substance that is only slightly less dense than water! This allows them to float and swim just above the seafloor with ease.
Cleaner wrasse have the ability to recognise themselves from a mirror! When wild-caught wrasses are presented with a mirror, they will first engage in aggressive behaviour towards their reflection, but soon start acting strangely in front of it: they’ll swim upside down next to it, for example. Once the cleaner wrasses were marked with a brown dot on their throats, they would immediately attempt to scrub it off upon seeing their reflection! This means they have some sense of themselves and their bodies.
There are three species of cod that are officially called codfish: the Atlantic cod, the Pacific cod and the Greenland cod! The Alaska pollock is also closely related to the Atlantic cod.
This family of fish essentially swims every moment of its life, in tight schools of hundreds or thousands of individuals. They can also be called silver darlings which I find cute!
At 30 cm (12 inches) in length, they are one of the largest butterflyfishes out there! They feed on coral and anemones, which can lead to problems in reefs if lined butterflyfish and other corallivores become too common; however, loss of coral cover makes it easier for predators to hunt these fish, bringing balance to the ecosystem.
