Aquatic Life Appreciation Thread 🐋 🐠 🐙

it’s fundamental research, isn’t that dear to you?

the objective was to determine whether or not other animals are able to navigate their environment. this trait is supposedly quite human.

this is fish but basically animals in general will learn to pilot a ship pretty quickly.

i think it’s amazing.

the problem is every time i see something cool about animals i wanna go back to being vegetarian because the guilt hits me like a brick. not that i eat a lot of animals but still. look at that smart goldfish!

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Pilot fish are amazing!

Japanese name: 鰤擬 ぶりもどき

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Parrot fish are not named after their colorful appearance, at least not primarily, but rather their beak-like teeth; parrotfish have teeth that are tightly packed together to form a coral-crushing bite. While what they eat is really the algae on coral or rock, they can do quite a lot of damage on coral reefs. They poop out the undigested coral and rock as sand. Fun fact: they also like to sleep enveloped in mucus that they create, like a slime force field? :joy:

More info: Parrotfish Facts That Will Make Them Your New Favorite Animal

Short clip with Attenborough about Green humphead parrotfish

Stoplight parrotfish

Bullethead parrotfish ハゲブダイ

Yellowbar parrotfish

Bucktooth parrotfish

Bluelip parrotfish

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TIL that those beautiful white tropical beaches are actually just parrotfish poop :nauseated_face:

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Yeah! Then again…all those beautiful grasslands etc is just grass on earthworm poop as well. it’s all poop! :joy:

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If you go back far enough, literally everything is star poop. :slightly_smiling_face:

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if (u.goBack(farEnough)) {
    return :star: :poop:;
}

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Fascinating short clip from National Geographic about bioluminescence in sharks!

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More fishies! I’m now looking up stuff about butterflyfish because I find them beautiful and serene! :butterfly: :tropical_fish: They are quite similar to smaller angelfish.

Sunburst butterflyfish ミゾレチョウチョウウオ

Copperband butterflyfish ハシナガチョウチョウウオ

Bluecheek butterflyfish ゴールデンバタフライフィッシュ

Orange face butterflyfish

Threadfin butterflyfish 棘蝶々魚 とげちょうちょううお

Pearlscale butterflyfish アミメチョウチョウウオ

Bannerfish or False moorish idol ムレハタタテダイ

And finally, completely unrelated to other butterfly fishies, is the African butterflyfish, a freshwater fish. バタフライフィッシュ

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I love the African Butterflyfish’s fins :astonished:

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Short clip with Attenborough talking about jellies and Portugese man 'o war 鰹の烏帽子 or カツオノエボシ

Some pics!

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I quite like this YT channel. It’s not professional content, but well researched from what I’ve seen. Soothing narration and beautiful images makes it a nice 15 minute watch.

Here’s a video about the life at the Polar regions. :ice_cube: :ocean: :otter: :whale2: :seal:

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So many shark puppies :pleading_face:
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Can’t quite believe this is the final final episode of this series! :cry: I really like this channel. I guess, he made it up by making a nearly 3 hour long episode, summarizing the series. :sweat_smile:

Tagging @Kumirei that I know also likes it. <3
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This one is for you slug lovers our there! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

First time I’ve seen a vid of the feeding of a sea slug. :slight_smile:

Extra points for anyone who can name this slug in Japanese and English! :star2:

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Time for some lovely seaslug pictures! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:


The ribbon is the slug’s eggs. Usually, they’re highly toxic, so don’t touch if you find any!

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Pikachu slug! :yellow_heart: :durtle_yellow_rodent:

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Pretty interesting documentary about German mountain lakes and rivers.

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we once came across what looked like millions of little sailing jellies! we picked one from the beach and plopped it on a small flat rock (it was dead) and kept it there for many years. we put it in sight and waited for people to ask about the creature. it kinda crumbled after a while. it was about 5cm long i’d say. prob still have the rock somewhere.

most people guessed what it was after some questions.

when we saw it, it was amazing. there were so many and the sails had pushed them to shore. there were all in hues of dark blue and purple. some almost just transparent white.

there, found a pic (not mine but exactly like what we saw)

only saw it once. i wonder how many there were. the entire beach was covered.

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