Fish that can walk
What? Fish can also walk, right? This is not a strange invention made by Frankenstein, but a fish that actually exists in nature. What do these fish look like? Let me introduce them to you one by one.
1. Oblique hip sculpin
Scutellaria brevis
The sculpin is native to the coast of California, USA. People here have long noticed their ability to move from one tide pool to another. This fish can survive out of water for 24 hours if necessary. It is very likely that some 4 billion years ago, some species of fish gradually expanded their air breathing and fin walking abilities in a similar intertidal zone, making them more suitable for living on the mainland.
In addition, this inconspicuous sculpin seems to be related to their presence on the mainland and water bodies. The way of life on the border feels very satisfying. This shows that once a species enters a viable ecological niche, as long as it can exist there, it will tend to stay there.
2. Walking Catfish
The origin of Buchaner Catfish isThailand, in Thailand, they are called "Pla Duk Dam", which means "dark-faced fish that is constantly squirming". But the downside is that they are ugly-looking creatures with tentacles and are notoriously invasive. They expanded their homeland from Thailand to Australia, India, the Middle East and Florida (after the 1960s). On the brighter side, they also eat raptors, alligators, and two-legged Floridians.
They often use extremely humid conditions to expand their territory, and occasionally use flooded It may be a street or a road, or it may be the carelessness of the drivers themselves.
3. Sculpin
There are about 300 species of sculpin in the world, and the body length of sculpin is about 10 cm. The rare sculpins in Europe and America include the short-horned sculpin and the long-horned sculpin. The short-horned sculpin rests in the greater European and American regions of North America and the Arctic, and is mottled or brown in color. Long-horned sculpins come in many colors. A relatively rare fish in the Pacific Ocean is the scorpion fish. Its flesh is blue and green, but it is edible. The little sculpin is the most depleted species of sculpin and is in an endangered state.
Sculpins are famous for their ability to "walk" from one current puddle to another in a clattering manner. They have the ability to survive out of water for 24 hours if necessary. This is a skill they evolved 400 million years ago.
4. Dog Minnow
Dog Minnow
Dog minnows will jump to the mainland under necessary conditions, such as looking for food or avoiding natural enemies., you might as well continue to arrange for 20 minutes. They use their pectoral fins to crawl on the continent. If they feel threatened, they will use their muscular tails to "jump" quickly to avoid danger.
5. Rock Jumper
Although the appearance is very similar to the mudskipper, the rockskipper belongs to the family Gobyidae, while the mudskipper belongs to the goby family. The leaping rockfish can climb to the mainland and stay there for up to 20 minutes in search of food or to avoid predators. When they sense the presence of a threat, rockhoppers will use their pectoral fins to squirm and occasionally break off their muscular tails to quickly "leap" away.
Rock jumping fish break away from the standard fish body shape, and some look more like the weak sea Iguana (definitely introduced). They stare at the water with their full eyes, carefully checking whether the shore is safe before jumping onto the beach.
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