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Here are seven facts about the fish with a face only a mother could love.
- ONE FISH MADE THEM FAMOUS. ...
- THEY DON'T LOOK HALF BAD 4000 FEET DEEP. ...
- THEY DON'T HAVE A SWIM BLADDER. ...
- THEY'RE NOT VERY ACTIVE. ...
- THEY WERE VOTED THE “WORLD'S UGLIEST ANIMAL.” ...
- THEY'RE A POP CULTURE SENSATION. ...
- THEY STILL REMAIN A MYSTERY.
- What are interesting facts about blobfish?
- How long do blob fish live?
- Can a blob fish smile?
- Does the blob fish swim?
- What makes a blobfish special?
- What is a blobfish favorite food?
- Where do blob fish live?
- Do blobfish have bones?
- Can blobfish be pets?
- Is blobfish poisonous?
- Are blobfish edible?
- What is the ugliest animal in the world?
- How many babies do blobfish have?
- What are the blobfish predators?
- How was the blobfish discovered?
- What do blobfish taste like?
What are interesting facts about blobfish?
Blobfish grow to about 12 inches long. The female lays thousands of small pink eggs on the seafloor. Either the female or male blobfish will sit on the eggs to protect them from predators. The blobfish lacks the swim bladder found in most species of fish, an air sac that allows the fish to adjust and control buoyancy.
How long do blob fish live?
Though the precise life expectancy of blobfish is unknown, deepwater fish generally tend to live longer than their shallow-water counterparts. Some stay alive for more than 100 years because of their lack of predators, and slow rate of growth and reproduction.
Can a blob fish smile?
The Blobfish, while it's pink and bald and squished, has no loving mum to wipe its mouth, leaving it in a state of perpetual deep-sea sadness, where smiling and playing is impossible. If the Blobfish didn't disgust me so much, I'd want to hug it and make it feel better.
Does the blob fish swim?
They don't move very much. Another benefit of the blobfish's gelatinous skin is that it allows them to float above the ocean floor without expending energy on swimming. Rather than hunting for its food, the blobfish primarily floats around and swallows crustaceans as they pass by.
What makes a blobfish special?
The blobfish belongs to the Actinopterygii class of animals. It is unique in the sense that unlike most other sea animals, this ugly animal is devoid of a swim bladder. The blobby material making its body prevents it from being crushed in the depths of ocean and sea.
What is a blobfish favorite food?
Blobfish Diet
Like many deep-sea fish, blobfish feed on invertebrates as well as carrion that falls to the seafloor. As their mouths are fairly large, they can consume bigger creatures such as sea pens, crabs, mollusks, and sea urchins.
Where do blob fish live?
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a foot-long pink fish found in the deep waters off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. It has soft bones and few muscles and lacks a swim bladder, the gas-filled internal organ that allows most bony fish to control their ability to stay afloat in water.
Do blobfish have bones?
The blobfish doesn't really have a skeleton, and it doesn't really have any muscle. So, up here, it's saggy and droopy.
Can blobfish be pets?
Blobfish are wild animals, and therefore should not be pets. But even if you tried to have one as a pet, they could not survive in the average aquarium environment because they require the heavy pressure of deep ocean water on their bodies to survive – in other words – to keep them from blobbing out.
Is blobfish poisonous?
The creature's unusual appearance caused some concern, including questions of whether this fish could bite. Thankfully, the blobfish poses little threat to humans. Not only does it lack teeth for biting but few humans will ever come in contact with a living specimen.
Are blobfish edible?
The blobfish, whose scientific name is Psychrolutes marcidus, grows to as much as a foot long and contains almost no muscle at all. With no muscle, the fish are not edible to humans, as you would be eating mostly a big blob of gelatin. ... This allows the fish to float above the sea floor but not rise to the ocean surface.
What is the ugliest animal in the world?
The blobfish was crowned the world's ugliest animal in 2013 — a title it still defends today. But that distinction was based on what this creature looks like on land. But drop this fellow 9,200 feet below sea level, and the water holds up all that flab like a push-up bra, making the fish a little more handsome.
How many babies do blobfish have?
They have 9000 eggs. Sometimes they have 108,000! These eggs are free from dirt or any other harmful thing. This means that parents clean the eggs daily.
What are the blobfish predators?
The only natural enemies of blobfish are humans. Blobfish spends its entire life on the sea floor. It occasionally ends up caught in the trawling nets, which is always fatal for this fish (it dies the moment it is taken out of the water due to rapid change of pressure).
How was the blobfish discovered?
The blobfish was discovered in 2003 by marine ecologist Kerryn Parkinson while on an ocean expedition off New Zealand.
What do blobfish taste like?
It tasted like butter poached lobster tail. The flesh was particularly nice,' he said. 'Almost everything that swims tastes good.
