On The Island of Mactan in the Philippines, there are many strange caves. Many divers see a swimming point of light when diving, and they slowly wander in the dark cave, which makes people's backs chill. According to the local islanders, these points of light are the ghosts of those who died in the war. However, are there really ghosts in this world?
In fact, this is not a ghost, but a magical fish whose eyes will glow, called "light-eyed fish".
The light-eyed fish, also known as the "flash fish" and "electric light man", is distributed in the Pacific ocean and is a nocturnal fish. They hide in dark caves and crevices during the day and come out at night to forage for food. The eye of a lamp-eyed fish is able to glow because there are hundreds of millions of fluorescent bacteria parasitizing their heads. These fluorescent bacteria are usually white and occasionally appear yellow or blue with the state of the fish.
With these glowing eyes, the light-eyed fish can exchange information with each other and trap plankton and crustaceans. In the event of danger, they can also "extinguish the lights" by rotating the light-emitting organs, thus avoiding predators.
The lamp-eye fish was first spotted off the coast of Jamaica in 1907, but they have not been found again in the next 70 years. Until January 1978, an aquarium in San Francisco, USA, organized a special expedition to dive and fish in the Caribbean waters, and finally found its traces, and there were many of them.
Among the rumors about the light-eye fish, the most interesting thing is that in the middle of the night, ships that go out to sea can follow the route swam by the pods of lamp-eye fish through the coral reef area and rarely touch the reef.
However, the lanternfish is generally only available as exhibits in aquariums and has no edible value. Therefore, don't have the idea of letting them realize the "raw fish value" under the "edification" of pepper and salt and the "watering" of sauce, and protect this magical little fish well