![]() now look at this screenshot from a news article about it because im about to cry over it. While doing a little more research on this, instead of doing my final research paper like i should be, i discovered that there is only one instance of a blobfish specimen being kept alive in captivity, located at the Aquamarine Fukushima, in Japan! the specimen was pulled- alive- through about 750 to 1,200 meters of water before it was moved to the aquarium. in order to be able to float, blobfish are made primarily of a gelatinous mass that is slightly less dense than water!) when they get pulled up in fishing nets, or by a natural disaster, their body rapidly depressurizes, expanding their tissues beyond their natural limits, turning the barely-swimming, deep-dwelling fish on the left into the more commonly portrayed image on the right. (fun fact- maintaining a swim bladder would likely be very inefficient at that pressure. Web.Their bodies are best suited for surviving at about 60 to 120 times as much pressure as we experience at sea level. Octonauts: Creature Reports – Blobfish – YouTube. “Blobfish GIFs | Say More with Tenor.” N.p., n.d. 15 June 2015.īlobfish Gifs – Monorailcathasleftthestation. #Save The Blobfishīlobfish | 13 of the Ugliest Animals on the Planet | MNN – Mother …Digital image. With deep sea fishing going on in Australia, the blobfish’s population is going down. ![]() Even after going with the flow, this fish is endangered like how Discovery said it, “it’s pretty rare for anyone to see blobfish, although they’re sometimes taken in nets hauled in by Australia’s deepwater fishing fleet” (Weird). No blobfish memes, no studying this majestic creature. The sad thing is, that the blobfish are endangered, What would life be like without the blobfish. If were you, I would visit the world’s ugliest 2013 winner’s cousin. One difference is that the blob sculpin, lives in the seas of California. They both eat crustaceans, and live in the deep sea. Other than that the blob sculpin lives deep underwater, and doesn’t have any bones, like the blobfish. Guess what the family of the fish is called. The blob sculpin is in the same family, as the blobfish. How the fish moves is very much depended on the deep sea currents that move the fish around the sea floor. Without a swim bladder, many fish can’t maintain a stable altitude underwater. So this fish doesn’t move at all, this means they don’t swim anywhere, like Smithsonian said, “Unlike most fish, they have no swim bladder to help maintain buoyancy”(Lidz). The blobfish is a fish without bones, or cartilage, so it can’t move to eat prey, or escape predators, Discovery had said once before, “that’s about all it can do - it has very little muscle, so actively hunting prey is nearly impossible”,(Clemens). The blobfish does keep its mouth open for food to go into his mouth, then he sucks with the current, and digests the food. This means that small crustaceans, and little sea animals can drift into the blobfish’s mouth, and get eaten by the blobfish, like how Smithsonian put it, “Like other lie-and-wait predators, blobfish stick around until anything remotely edible floats into their open jaws, then suck it in”(Lidz). Well the blobfish can sort of swim, because of the deep sea currents that carry animals around the sea floor, like the blobfish. Ya, we’re used to this form of blobfish, but the blobfish that lives in the deep sea undergoes a transformation from a blob, to a regular looking deep sea fish that can’t swim. All of this jello on a fish is about the size of 1 ft, the “12 inches, about as long as a comic book”(Weird). This brings up the question, what is the blobfish’s physical attributes that help it survive.īlobfish have a fish body that is designed for high pressure, so that means in low pressure, its body will be all jello-like. All of these factors rely on it’s own physical composition. If it doesn’t have any bones then how does the blobfish move, or eat. ![]() If you don’t know what the blobfish is, it’s a small deep sea fish that doesn’t have any teeth, thus meaning that it has no bones. If you said the blobfish, then you were right. What animal was crowned the world’s ugliest animal in 2013. The blob sculpin will be talked about even more at the bottom of the page, where these bottom critters only move, and eat via current. Its cousin the blob sculpin looks extremely like it underwater. So the blobfish is a blob in low pressure, and a whole new fish in high pressure. Under lots of pressure in the deep sea, it can change the shape of any organism. That’s if they do not go extinct first!īlobfish are not as ugly as everyone puts it up to be. Maybe in the future, the blobfish will be researched. This blobby fish has a chum load of facts on it, that need to be investigated. The blobfish is an odd looking fish that isn’t seen by many.
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