They catch easily-catchable prey like fish larvae and jellyfish. They're functionally moronic, plagued by skin parasites, and die if they spend too much time in cold water. Nature's perfect mistake.
Brother they become disoriented and die if they go into water colder than 12C. That's pretty pathetic for a fish.
What's it self defense? It looks like it has none and is the easiest meal a shark or orca could get. Like it seems it would be easily eaten alive with no effort on the predators part.
Their skin is also very tough and covered in thick slime.
They spend most of the day hunting between 500-1000 meters, they get disoriented because they're cold blooded and need the sun to warm up between dives.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2017/7097965/ >During its westward travel, dives extended to 1112m (the deepest depth yet recorded for Molidae) into temperatures ranging between 4.5°C and 23.2°C.
i remember seeing one at the monterey bay aquarium when they still had one. swam up against the glass and it was taller than me, already knew they were huge but you dont get a sense of perspective until you see it in person
What's it self defense? It looks like it has none and is the easiest meal a shark or orca could get. Like it seems it would be easily eaten alive with no effort on the predators part.
It is so massively large that nothing but sea lions, orcas, and large sharks can seriously eat it. Actually, according to an article I just read, sea lions don't even actually eat the pieces they rip off, they just torture them because they're pricks. And they spend most of their time at such depths that their few predators cannot even reach them. Most of the time when they're killed, it's coming or going from sunning. Also, they lay millions of eggs at a time, so they really just try to brute force everything: too big to eat, too many to eat all of.
But if an orca or large shark get a hold of a sunfish, they have no defenses.
They're faster than you'd think and my god you just have no idea how big they are if you cut off both vertical fins and stood it up it'd still be taller than you.
You try to frickin eat that thing. If you can't by the time it gets its mass moving it'll already have descended 10,000 leagues.
You be shocked what the babies looked like in size. This for example is a swordfish.
Oh my god, they're so cute! And I'd have likely never said that of the bigger ones, especially the sunfish, the small ones are just reminding me of hard candy if It was punkish pearls and alive, lovely work of nature!
I fricking love ocean sunfish, here's some pics I took at the monterey bay aquarium on 2014. however, I only had a shitty 60$ windows phone so this is the best I could do.
Many fish are.
Scripps aquarium in San Diego had a giant grooper that spent all day at the edge of the tank watching people. She had a massive tank but spent everyday at eye level at the closest part of her tank to the main aisle (her eyeballs were the size of golfballs). It was interesting to watch her watching people. She was aware of individuals and would float up or down so she could look adults or children directly eye to eye.
mario enemy
this is the most funny animal ever made, how can other pathetic shitheads even compare?
what other animal even comes close in comedy?
how do these fat frickers catch anything?
They catch easily-catchable prey like fish larvae and jellyfish. They're functionally moronic, plagued by skin parasites, and die if they spend too much time in cold water. Nature's perfect mistake.
Their skin is also very tough and covered in thick slime.
>plagued by skin parasites,
like basically all animals
>and die if they spend too much time in cold water
Oh they die if they spend too much time at the wrong temperature? Truly the worst animal, no other animal is like that
Ok sunfish, no need to get all asshurt
Brother they become disoriented and die if they go into water colder than 12C. That's pretty pathetic for a fish.
They spend most of the day hunting between 500-1000 meters, they get disoriented because they're cold blooded and need the sun to warm up between dives.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2017/7097965/
>During its westward travel, dives extended to 1112m (the deepest depth yet recorded for Molidae) into temperatures ranging between 4.5°C and 23.2°C.
i remember seeing one at the monterey bay aquarium when they still had one. swam up against the glass and it was taller than me, already knew they were huge but you dont get a sense of perspective until you see it in person
Tank build.
What's it self defense? It looks like it has none and is the easiest meal a shark or orca could get. Like it seems it would be easily eaten alive with no effort on the predators part.
It is so massively large that nothing but sea lions, orcas, and large sharks can seriously eat it. Actually, according to an article I just read, sea lions don't even actually eat the pieces they rip off, they just torture them because they're pricks. And they spend most of their time at such depths that their few predators cannot even reach them. Most of the time when they're killed, it's coming or going from sunning. Also, they lay millions of eggs at a time, so they really just try to brute force everything: too big to eat, too many to eat all of.
But if an orca or large shark get a hold of a sunfish, they have no defenses.
>they really just try to brute force everything
Based
Are they poisionus like other puffers? do they have tetratoxin?
they also look like they could dodge a predator by being able to corner tighter
They're faster than you'd think and my god you just have no idea how big they are if you cut off both vertical fins and stood it up it'd still be taller than you.
You try to frickin eat that thing. If you can't by the time it gets its mass moving it'll already have descended 10,000 leagues.
i fricking hate those things. has the be the only animal i'm scared shitless of
the sunfish are truly one of the funniest creatures ever concieved, how can any other animal even compare in comedy
You be shocked what the babies looked like in size. This for example is a swordfish.
The sunfish at birth.
Oh my god, they're so cute! And I'd have likely never said that of the bigger ones, especially the sunfish, the small ones are just reminding me of hard candy if It was punkish pearls and alive, lovely work of nature!
Oh wow. They're a lot more agile and fluid swimming than I expected.
First vid is really cool, you can see him making the most of his fins.
Can they survive with chunks ripped out of them?
Imagine the butthurt
No butt, no hurt.
Looks like a tiger shark bite mark
I fricking love ocean sunfish, here's some pics I took at the monterey bay aquarium on 2014. however, I only had a shitty 60$ windows phone so this is the best I could do.
I see this quite often where I live. It's more exciting for me to see these than whales or dolphins who are quite common also.
I keep seeing small dead/dying ones on the beach. 🙁
You should push the ones that are still alive back in the ocean
Also where the hell do you live that this is a common occurence for you
fort bragg California area
you can usually find them in the morning
they certainly are r-selection strategy beings
Nyoom plane fish
What is the purpose of such a stupid shape.
No other fish has evolved like that.
Read they wiki. They are interesting. They have something like the highest spawn of any fish and the fry are like tiny spiky death snacks iirc.
To look goofy and mog the normal shaped fish
>stupid shape
They basically got rid of as much of their body that isn't digestive system as possible
Should be burgerland's country animal.
>just be a conformist bro
It’s about efficiency. 4 of the 5 heaviest species of bony fish are in the genus Mola.
They are related to puffer fish and triggerfish, IIRC.
Triggerfish and filefish kinda
I think they are kinda cute
They still look goofy
But are they intelligent?
Yeah.
Aquariums train them to follow indicators.
They have to handfeed them too
Many fish are.
Scripps aquarium in San Diego had a giant grooper that spent all day at the edge of the tank watching people. She had a massive tank but spent everyday at eye level at the closest part of her tank to the main aisle (her eyeballs were the size of golfballs). It was interesting to watch her watching people. She was aware of individuals and would float up or down so she could look adults or children directly eye to eye.
They can jump out of the water and with their massive size they could hurt you bad if you are unlucky enough to be on the way.
If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
I went scuba diving the other day but I didn't see shit, I wish I get lucky the next time, guide said sometimes sunfish get close enough to the coast.
I love baby whales. They're very cute.
Why wouldn't a baby whale be big?
That's not a baby whale, it's the whales escape pod.