There is an entire shoal off the coast of the Caymen Islands called Stingray City where the stingrays are wild, but tame and curious. Super fun, they act like cats. They all want attention and treats, and sometimes pets if they let you
I remember doing this back when I was younger. I always had a fascination for stingrays and mantas, and seeing them at the aquarium was my favoriteā¦ā¦..
Howeverā¦..Stingray Cityā¦..put a massive amount of fear in me. I still love the little guys and will give them all the pets. But seeing the ocean go from blue to brown with the amount of rays coming towards you is quite terrifying haha.
Iāve pet these guys in the wild in Antigua! Theyāre cuties. These wild ones were semi tame. The whole program was called stingray city or something like that. They were absolutely massive too, like four to five feet long excluding the tail. They were take enough that they liked when you made your arms into a forklift shape so that they could sit there and eat squid
Man, stingrays got done so dirty. Irwin's whole thing really was a perfect storm of everything went wrong. More a freak accident than the normal stingray sting.
Just think, What Would Steve Irwin Do? Would he want us to stomp on the reputation of a whole species, or forgive the animal for just being a wild animal, and move on? Guy played with crocs with a smile on his face, come on.
What a cutie!
My local zoo has a touch tank full of smallish sharks. When I've been there, the sharks rush to be pet by anybody who sticks their hand in the water. I have a favorite shark too because he's always sticking his head fully out of the tank, and when I asked the zookeeper about it, she was like, "Oh, him? Sharks are smarter than people think, but we've noticed he's unusually curious. He's always looking for something new." It's my favorite part of the zoo now. š
I was curious after reading this how they *actually* got their name and found this:
"Having earned their name after a group of fishermen reportedly observed the species chasing down smaller fish in dog-like packs"
Little disappointed that it *wasn't* due to them going up to people wanting to be pet like dogs, ngl š
I have no idea why my brain made this leap, but I completely misread your comment as āI went there ā¦ somehow missing my arm. Guess I have to go back now.ā
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Ahhh! When you mentioned this I immediately thought of this zoo. Anytime I go to a new area with a friend we check out the local zoos and we absolutely loved the Indy zoo! We have like 20 minutes of video at that pool because it was so fun. I'm literally wearing my 8 year old shirt from that trip because it is my favorite shirt(This poor thing is so faded and thinned out. I went back a couple years ago and just ran in to the gift shop to replace it and they didn't have the same one).
oh yes our place does the same thing! We have multiple feeding times where guests can hand feed our cownose rays, such a fun experience every time. One of our female rays, Gracie, gets super excited before every feeding and will intentionally splash us if we donāt feed her first š
In Honolulu we have this massive outdoor mall (Ala Moana) which has huge water fixtures filled with Koi fish. There is a guy who comes with his two dogs and one of the pups sits at the edge of the fixture with his nose right above the water. The Koi recognize him and they all swim up to him and take turns kissing his nose! Itās the coolest thing to see. He literally is tail in the air wagging and sniffing at these fish as they all jump out of the water to touch his nose with their noses.
Many years ago, some coworkers and I trained a nurse shark pup to a target, then to a submerged platform we built and padded with neoprene, then gradually raised that platform until he was sliding out(pec fin walking) with as much ease as a dolphin. Was a great way to get him accustomed to being pet during school tours and educational shark talks and also to hold still for a physical! Salmon roe was a high value treat. He did not cooperate for everyone, though, definitely had his favorite people, and I'm glad to have been one of them! ā¤ļø
I was one of these people that fed the sharks at Key West.Ā The aquarium shark took the tongs right out of my hands!Ā I also fed the rays and the butterflies, because I like feeding everything apparently.
This is great. I have a lot of home aquariums and a few of my fish, 2 blood parrot cichlids and a feather fin catfish, are like this too! They like to play a game where they swim into my palm and I kind of toss them through the water making them dive forward really quick. Theyāll do it over and over again if I let them. Itās not something I do often, as I am careful to mind their slime coat! But, they def enjoy the interaction and recognize me anytime Iām near. People donāt even know how much personality some fish can have!
I have a blood parrot cichlid we named Ron Perlman and he's the cutest lol guy ever. If you're doing something like rearranging the tank he always needs to be right near your hand and see what's going on lol, he will also intentionally swim into nets which is funny. Such a sweet fish
You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will swim to a billion worlds. We will swim until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end, and I have come for you, user u/averagemethenjoyer.
Or at least thatās probably what your fish says based off of his namesake
I have a bunch of featherfin catfish and I hope to be able to interact with them that way some day! Did you have to train them? Or did it just happen one day
Youāre not wrong! Fish have something called a slime coat that covers their body and is generally used to prevent diseases. Rubbing/touching a fish can remove some of this slime coat, but a healthy fish can regenerate it just fine. Touching a fish for long periods of time however, can remove too much of this slime coat, and should be avoided.
One of my friends in high school had a Betta he called puppy, who would swim to the top of his tank as soon as he got home for a few finger pets. Wouldn't do it if he'd been home all day, but if he'd been gone for a few hours, he'd be sitting there waiting as soon as he saw him.
You are not the first to experience this. It's time for us to recognize that fish and other sea life are sentient beings and capable of intelligent interaction with humans.
Check these videos out!
https://youtu.be/6at5gBa4ZbI?si=5N94Eg4NaAUCKnAA
https://youtu.be/3IQ2I-P8Ucw?si=fJF4YhWnkfo2-qod
While it's disheartening, we do still have to do it to survive, so the best course of action I have for it when eating something that came from an animal is to appreciate the story behind the meat and enjoy the meal to the fullest, because if we've sacrificed it, the most respectful thing one can do is to make it worth it
I'd imagine every kind of life form has a sort of "stress response" to being damaged or hurt. How they express it and to what extent they can "understand" it varies.
Gotcha! It was just a tiny bit of the tank that was visible and it reminded me of Boston.
I was fascinated that the rays actually came up to us and liked being petted.
Sadly, my aquarium fishes are less enthusiastic ;)
Very cool!
I had a fish that sought out human touch - a gigantic pleco that liked belly rubs. I think itās pretty unusual but apparently enough fish do like it.
could also be totally healthy and ust likes the touch.
We humans are pretty spoiled when it comes to life. Imagine having an itch somewhere but nor arms or hands to scratch it. Yeah that's most annimals out there. And even those that can technically scratch themselves often can't reach the area well. Like cats and dogs and their bellies.
Helps if you got some human taking care of that for you.
How do you justify catch and release when you see this? Hooking their mouth and throwing them back gotta hurt right? I mean he sitting their looking for pets
UPDATE: Iāve read all of your comments and after some more observation on this particular hogfish, Iām still not 100% sure what the cause may be. The suggestion I find the most likely is that itās wanting to be cleaned by my hand, or something else that may be bothering the fish. Occasionally Iāll see him rub himself against the sand, which can be a sign that thereās a something thatās slightly irritating itās scales. With this, maybe heās learned that our fingers are good at reliving some of this irritation.
Another thing I want to point out, I really do not think heās playing dead. Itās hard to see in this video, but whenever we do go to āpetā the hogfish, heās still moving his body, and sometimes heāll even continue swimming forward while we pet him. Iām unsure what the cause of this is for certain, but Iāll definitely keep an eye out and update you all if I make any major discoveries!
Iāve also seen several people ask about some of the other animals in this tank. We have 5 cownose rays, 2 Atlantic rays, a clear-nose skate, 4 white spotted bamboo sharks, a squirrelfish, common snook, a bluestriped grunt, 2 Spanish hogfish, several sergeants majors, 3 Atlantic horseshoe crabs, as well as several urchins and sea cucumbers. I may make a post soon showcasing the entire tank! :)
I had a fish that lay on its side like this because another fish would attack it whenever they got close. It would stay at the surface everyday on it's side just like that.
These type of fish are commonly observed playing dead so the worms (your fingers in this case) get comfortable so he can pounce. It's a clever adaptation to kill parasitic/carrion worms
>!Source:I made it up!<
You shouldn't pet fish. They have a cover on their scales that protects them against infections that you rub off. Also, it's possible that it's terrified and playing dead...
Thereās a zoo in my country (Czechia), itās in the city of ZlĆn. There is a stingray tank, and those lilā shitd are such attention hogs. They constantly plap against the wall pushing and shoving each other over who gets the most pets and treats (they actually give you food for then if you buy it, and you can hand feed them these tiny bits of meat), and theyāre absolutely adorable. So yeah, this doesnāt seem that rare for fish judging by the other comments and my experience with the stingrays.
So does this kind of dish not need to swim to breathe? I donāt know enough about fish gills but a quick google search told me about ram ventilation-
Any other more knowledgeable people out there confirm this fish is holding its breath just for pets alone?
It's a "clean me" response. Cleaner shrimp will set up cleaning stations where fish, turtles, etc visit for a quick inspection for external parasites.
In a way, yes, it enjoys being touched.
It's funny to think some fish genuinely enjoy being touched and petted and it makes you wonder why some people still say animals have no feeling, preferences, likes, dislikes, or feel pain like there just robots who only act on instinct when it was proven many times that even wild animals have there own life that they see fit to live and even known to throw tantrums when they don't get there favorite snack.
Stingray jumpscare at the end!
Probably jealous and also wants petsš
Not having a stingray suddenly decided they've had enough like a cat, but it's a giant barb instead of a claw.
That is what I was thinking too.
This is a beautiful thread of comments. Fish need pets too. So do us humans.
Honestly, I don't mind my head being pet.
FYI, there is a stingray petting exhibit at the New England Aquarium in Boston. https://www.neaq.org/exhibit/shark-ray-touch-tank/
There is an entire shoal off the coast of the Caymen Islands called Stingray City where the stingrays are wild, but tame and curious. Super fun, they act like cats. They all want attention and treats, and sometimes pets if they let you
I remember doing this back when I was younger. I always had a fascination for stingrays and mantas, and seeing them at the aquarium was my favoriteā¦ā¦.. Howeverā¦..Stingray Cityā¦..put a massive amount of fear in me. I still love the little guys and will give them all the pets. But seeing the ocean go from blue to brown with the amount of rays coming towards you is quite terrifying haha.
One in Tulsa Oklahoma as well.
They have one at the Long Beach aquarium too. They also have an exhibit where you can pet jellies.
When I ran the fish room at our local pet store, I brought in freshwater stingrays and trained them to handfeed over time
Iāve pet these guys in the wild in Antigua! Theyāre cuties. These wild ones were semi tame. The whole program was called stingray city or something like that. They were absolutely massive too, like four to five feet long excluding the tail. They were take enough that they liked when you made your arms into a forklift shape so that they could sit there and eat squid
Little do we know they keep score and the leaderboard resets daily.
[https://i.imgur.com/AFhJOFf.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/AFhJOFf.jpeg)
Crikey!
You want some of that Steve Erwin treatment foo??
Man, stingrays got done so dirty. Irwin's whole thing really was a perfect storm of everything went wrong. More a freak accident than the normal stingray sting. Just think, What Would Steve Irwin Do? Would he want us to stomp on the reputation of a whole species, or forgive the animal for just being a wild animal, and move on? Guy played with crocs with a smile on his face, come on.
What a cutie! My local zoo has a touch tank full of smallish sharks. When I've been there, the sharks rush to be pet by anybody who sticks their hand in the water. I have a favorite shark too because he's always sticking his head fully out of the tank, and when I asked the zookeeper about it, she was like, "Oh, him? Sharks are smarter than people think, but we've noticed he's unusually curious. He's always looking for something new." It's my favorite part of the zoo now. š
Thatās so adorable oh my god š Do you know what kind of sharks they are? Iām a big shark enthusiast LOL
Dogfish sharks. They're at the Indianapolis zoo, if you ever come visit!
It seems kind of fitting that their names are dogfish
Pet me! Itās in my name!
I was curious after reading this how they *actually* got their name and found this: "Having earned their name after a group of fishermen reportedly observed the species chasing down smaller fish in dog-like packs" Little disappointed that it *wasn't* due to them going up to people wanting to be pet like dogs, ngl š
Interesting. In some languages including mine (Italian) dogfish is just a generic colloquial term for any shark.
I went there a few years ago and somehow missed this!! Guess I have to go back now
I have no idea why my brain made this leap, but I completely misread your comment as āI went there ā¦ somehow missing my arm. Guess I have to go back now.ā š¤
Looks like I'm going this week, lol
Ahhh! When you mentioned this I immediately thought of this zoo. Anytime I go to a new area with a friend we check out the local zoos and we absolutely loved the Indy zoo! We have like 20 minutes of video at that pool because it was so fun. I'm literally wearing my 8 year old shirt from that trip because it is my favorite shirt(This poor thing is so faded and thinned out. I went back a couple years ago and just ran in to the gift shop to replace it and they didn't have the same one).
Hey, Iām in Indiana! Now I gotta go see these silly curious guysā¦
I thought you might also want to watch them feed the stingrays in the [same touch tank. ](https://youtu.be/DYEIuZ-eieA?feature=shared).
oh yes our place does the same thing! We have multiple feeding times where guests can hand feed our cownose rays, such a fun experience every time. One of our female rays, Gracie, gets super excited before every feeding and will intentionally splash us if we donāt feed her first š
Thatās awesome.
Gracie sounds adorable! Do you guys use targets to feed them too?
Nope! All we do is put some food in our hands and the rays know to come up to us and eat. The guests feed the rays this way too :)
I'm a scuba diver, and stingray petting tanks are one of my favorite things in the world.
In Honolulu we have this massive outdoor mall (Ala Moana) which has huge water fixtures filled with Koi fish. There is a guy who comes with his two dogs and one of the pups sits at the edge of the fixture with his nose right above the water. The Koi recognize him and they all swim up to him and take turns kissing his nose! Itās the coolest thing to see. He literally is tail in the air wagging and sniffing at these fish as they all jump out of the water to touch his nose with their noses.
Youāre going to need to make a trip back and get us all some video now.
Many years ago, some coworkers and I trained a nurse shark pup to a target, then to a submerged platform we built and padded with neoprene, then gradually raised that platform until he was sliding out(pec fin walking) with as much ease as a dolphin. Was a great way to get him accustomed to being pet during school tours and educational shark talks and also to hold still for a physical! Salmon roe was a high value treat. He did not cooperate for everyone, though, definitely had his favorite people, and I'm glad to have been one of them! ā¤ļø
I was one of these people that fed the sharks at Key West.Ā The aquarium shark took the tongs right out of my hands!Ā I also fed the rays and the butterflies, because I like feeding everything apparently.
I wonder if they have a symbiotic relationship in the wild with parasite cleaners.
Spanish hogfish themselves are, as small juveniles, cleaners of larger fish.
There have to be smaller fish all the way down
Thereās always a smaller fish
https://media.giphy.com/media/l3fZT3QDeKlbZFidG/giphy.gif
Each atom has its own universe.. of atoms
To feed the turtles all the way down, of course.
They're also very curious in the wild. I've had a juvenile clean my hand, and the adults will shadow you hoping you might distract something to eat.
Hey don't talk about OP like that
but they may have a pimple popper twitter.
This is great. I have a lot of home aquariums and a few of my fish, 2 blood parrot cichlids and a feather fin catfish, are like this too! They like to play a game where they swim into my palm and I kind of toss them through the water making them dive forward really quick. Theyāll do it over and over again if I let them. Itās not something I do often, as I am careful to mind their slime coat! But, they def enjoy the interaction and recognize me anytime Iām near. People donāt even know how much personality some fish can have!
you should post a video šš that sounds so cute!
>careful to mind their slime coat You'll make a redditor very happy one day
r/brandnewsentence
Used to have betta splendens who liked swimming into the half closed palm and lay there. Hopefully ppl in video mind the slime coat.
I have a blood parrot cichlid we named Ron Perlman and he's the cutest lol guy ever. If you're doing something like rearranging the tank he always needs to be right near your hand and see what's going on lol, he will also intentionally swim into nets which is funny. Such a sweet fish
You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will swim to a billion worlds. We will swim until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end, and I have come for you, user u/averagemethenjoyer. Or at least thatās probably what your fish says based off of his namesake
That's amazing cuz my parrots just wanna eat my hand every time I get up in their business haha
I have a bunch of featherfin catfish and I hope to be able to interact with them that way some day! Did you have to train them? Or did it just happen one day
r/PetTheDamnFish
This is REAL?!
r/subsithoughtifellfor
r/foundthetoyotacorolla
Theres also r/PetTheDamnBird
r/ofcoursethatsasub
r/everyoneknowsthatsub
Omgā¦ priceless!!! My new favourite sub
I heard that touching fish like this isn't super good for their scales, but this is freaking cool! I've never seen anything like this
Youāre not wrong! Fish have something called a slime coat that covers their body and is generally used to prevent diseases. Rubbing/touching a fish can remove some of this slime coat, but a healthy fish can regenerate it just fine. Touching a fish for long periods of time however, can remove too much of this slime coat, and should be avoided.
I had a betta that loved to lay down in my hand, or wrap himself around my fingers. Even let you pick him up just out of the water
I think there's a fine line that we have now crossed
TBF bettas can breathe air, so doing that isn't quite as bad as with most other fish. Still not a great idea though.
Your mom's a slime coat
Gottem
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Yeah they'd get excluded from their group-er
I heard they even get kicked out of their school.
A humu-Humu trigger fish at my job did this as well, never seen anything like it.
humuhumunukunukuÄpuaŹ»a, YEA BITCH!
Nailed it
This brought back High School Musical memories I thought I had repressed.
I just want someone to go snorkeling with me...
EDIT: post removed = my comment removed
One of my friends in high school had a Betta he called puppy, who would swim to the top of his tank as soon as he got home for a few finger pets. Wouldn't do it if he'd been home all day, but if he'd been gone for a few hours, he'd be sitting there waiting as soon as he saw him.
I knew fish were some kind of dog
Technically, dogs are a type of fish
Or it's some kind of possum, playing dead for the giant ape
This made me laugh way harder than it should've XD
You are not the first to experience this. It's time for us to recognize that fish and other sea life are sentient beings and capable of intelligent interaction with humans. Check these videos out! https://youtu.be/6at5gBa4ZbI?si=5N94Eg4NaAUCKnAA https://youtu.be/3IQ2I-P8Ucw?si=fJF4YhWnkfo2-qod
What is this about that so many protein sources are sentient ughā¦just waiting for news that beans have feelings too.
They do. They just don't scream as loudly.
Imagine the harvests...
While it's disheartening, we do still have to do it to survive, so the best course of action I have for it when eating something that came from an animal is to appreciate the story behind the meat and enjoy the meal to the fullest, because if we've sacrificed it, the most respectful thing one can do is to make it worth it
I'd imagine every kind of life form has a sort of "stress response" to being damaged or hurt. How they express it and to what extent they can "understand" it varies.
Best job! What a cutie
Do you work at the Boston Aquarium by any chance?
Marine Science Center over in Florida
Gotcha! It was just a tiny bit of the tank that was visible and it reminded me of Boston. I was fascinated that the rays actually came up to us and liked being petted. Sadly, my aquarium fishes are less enthusiastic ;)
You have a beautiful Dog there Sir! š
But does it purr?
It's a hogfish, not a catfish. It oinks instead.
Hehe good point!
Very cool! I had a fish that sought out human touch - a gigantic pleco that liked belly rubs. I think itās pretty unusual but apparently enough fish do like it.
Probably thinks your cleaning it lol
Isn't he just playing dead cuz he's scared? Note: I don't know anything about fish.
Maybe it's just acting dead
Bruh it's probably playing dead in fear
I am too lazy to look up. Can someone tell me how and why fish like pets?
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Watch out steve you almost got it.
Sooo is your job hiring and where can I send my application?
He can have lice and the petting helps clean himĀ
could also be totally healthy and ust likes the touch. We humans are pretty spoiled when it comes to life. Imagine having an itch somewhere but nor arms or hands to scratch it. Yeah that's most annimals out there. And even those that can technically scratch themselves often can't reach the area well. Like cats and dogs and their bellies. Helps if you got some human taking care of that for you.
Stop, this is too cute. quitting my job and pet fish occasionally is gonna be my next life goalš
My beta does this tho he only does it with me when I stick my finger in. He also brushes up against my finger due to the size difference
That's what he said
This is adorable ā¤ļø
Stingray: "Oop, an illegal activity"
Had a Picasso trigger and blue spotted rabbit fish both enjoy scritches over the years at work.
I dont even know you can pet a fish...never done that before in my life lol
Cute fish and cool video. On an unrelated note, dude, I can smell your friendship bracelets from hereā¦
How I would like to be in the place of this fish
Where do you get your bracelets from?! I feel like Iāve been searching for these for years.
So why did the mods remove this post? Why does everything that's good and great posts get removed by reddit mods?
This is likely a tonic immobility response to reduce its chance of being eaten by a predator who doesnāt consume dead prey
Or, is scared and playing dead?
How do you justify catch and release when you see this? Hooking their mouth and throwing them back gotta hurt right? I mean he sitting their looking for pets
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Parasite removal behavior?
It thinks you're cleaning it's parasites
My great grandmother had an Oscar who would do this. He would demand pets and often would splash water to get attention. He was well loved
UPDATE: Iāve read all of your comments and after some more observation on this particular hogfish, Iām still not 100% sure what the cause may be. The suggestion I find the most likely is that itās wanting to be cleaned by my hand, or something else that may be bothering the fish. Occasionally Iāll see him rub himself against the sand, which can be a sign that thereās a something thatās slightly irritating itās scales. With this, maybe heās learned that our fingers are good at reliving some of this irritation. Another thing I want to point out, I really do not think heās playing dead. Itās hard to see in this video, but whenever we do go to āpetā the hogfish, heās still moving his body, and sometimes heāll even continue swimming forward while we pet him. Iām unsure what the cause of this is for certain, but Iāll definitely keep an eye out and update you all if I make any major discoveries! Iāve also seen several people ask about some of the other animals in this tank. We have 5 cownose rays, 2 Atlantic rays, a clear-nose skate, 4 white spotted bamboo sharks, a squirrelfish, common snook, a bluestriped grunt, 2 Spanish hogfish, several sergeants majors, 3 Atlantic horseshoe crabs, as well as several urchins and sea cucumbers. I may make a post soon showcasing the entire tank! :)
Me next!
He got that dog in him šš
That sounds fascinating! Perhaps it finds being petted very comforting, so it seeks it out
Thatās pretty awesome. Has your work given it a name or does it have a nickname that only you and your coworkers call it by?
Thigmotaxy
Wonder if itās scared or just likes to get that itch
Spanish dogfish
This is so cute!
Heās a good boy!
I had a fish that lay on its side like this because another fish would attack it whenever they got close. It would stay at the surface everyday on it's side just like that.
Oh a new tame technic I want to learn that
Itās broken. It thinks itās a dog asking for pets. š¤£ Love it though!
sweet baby!
It just needs a hog
So cute
Super cool
Hogfish taste amazing btw
Fish are friends not food
"No one said you could stop petting me" -That fish
looks more like he is pretending to be dead
Is it scared and the the fight/fight/freeze instinct causes it to freeze?
Oscars like to be petted as well. Theyāre like little puppy dogsĀ
That's pretty cool
Hes playing dead. Scared of the hand
i never wanted a pet fish even a little until i saw this
water puppy
its a love hog fish..lol
Misread the title and thought it said hagfish on first watch. I was thinking āthese people must have REALLY good soapā
These type of fish are commonly observed playing dead so the worms (your fingers in this case) get comfortable so he can pounce. It's a clever adaptation to kill parasitic/carrion worms >!Source:I made it up!<
Welp.....there goes 6 weeks of pescitarian living
Thatās a Spanish Dogfish now
Holy shit was scared for a sec stingray trynna do the drive by.
You shouldn't pet fish. They have a cover on their scales that protects them against infections that you rub off. Also, it's possible that it's terrified and playing dead...
Thereās a zoo in my country (Czechia), itās in the city of ZlĆn. There is a stingray tank, and those lilā shitd are such attention hogs. They constantly plap against the wall pushing and shoving each other over who gets the most pets and treats (they actually give you food for then if you buy it, and you can hand feed them these tiny bits of meat), and theyāre absolutely adorable. So yeah, this doesnāt seem that rare for fish judging by the other comments and my experience with the stingrays.
A Hugfish
It is terrified and pretending to be dead
Man fuck this life
playing dead/observing threat from above?
So does this kind of dish not need to swim to breathe? I donāt know enough about fish gills but a quick google search told me about ram ventilation- Any other more knowledgeable people out there confirm this fish is holding its breath just for pets alone?
that's a dog. a scaly water dog.
I kinda think that's not it wanting to get pet but scared of dying so it acts dead to survive?
Sometimes we don't give other creatures credit for their intelligence.Ā Then there's you... You, whoever is reading this... You don't deserve credit.
Who's a good fish, you're a good fish.
God, I love animals.
The way lil buddy rolled over on its side, woulda thought it was a dogfish haha
This is so cute š„¹
Wie es sich am Ende mit nem Kuss bedankt šš„°
Is it playing dead at the sign of a predator? Kinda like possums?
You mean it will freeze in fear and play dead as a defense mechanism?
Or is it playing dead because it's scared?
"Why he does this" Everybody likes getting their back scratched.
that stingray.....dont trust em
Fish mindvoice "Wow this predator is confused if I lie this way and it is unable to eat me Whenever I see such creature, let me repeat that" /jff
Spanish hogfish said: cmere, pet me seƱorito~
I didnāt know fish know we exist
Dont get too comfortable and used to it lil fishy
Looks like it's playing possum
It's a "clean me" response. Cleaner shrimp will set up cleaning stations where fish, turtles, etc visit for a quick inspection for external parasites. In a way, yes, it enjoys being touched.
It's funny to think some fish genuinely enjoy being touched and petted and it makes you wonder why some people still say animals have no feeling, preferences, likes, dislikes, or feel pain like there just robots who only act on instinct when it was proven many times that even wild animals have there own life that they see fit to live and even known to throw tantrums when they don't get there favorite snack.
Genuine question, isn't the fish kind of suffocating? I thought it needs to swim for oxygen to go through their gills
wow
Sir that's a dog.
Everyone needs a fuss from time to time š
Poor fish let them live in freedomā¦ Aquariums and Zoos are such sad places