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Marine science popularization | cat sharks that eat "swan meat" and kissing fish that do not call

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Cat sharks that eat "swan meat"

Growing up, teachers and books only told us that birds can eat fish, and bird fishing is more common, but can fish catch flying birds? There is really a kind of "super intelligent" cat shark that hunts seabirds (Cat Shark) eats "swan meat", how cat sharks counterattack to prey on flying seabirds.

Cat sharks prey on seabirds by clever design. In the vast sea, the cat shark flips the white belly to the sky, floating on the water, the seabirds soaring in the air are often very tired, when they see the cat shark big white belly, mistaken for a small land, they come down to rest. Subsequently, the cat shark took four steps to prey on the seabirds, first, slowly turning around, revealing the tail fin, and the seabirds also moved to the tail; second, slowly sinking the tail and exposing the ridge, and the birds also moved to the back; third, slowly sinking the ridge to expose the head, and the bird moved to its head; finally, slowly sinking the head, when the water will flood the bird, suddenly open its mouth, and suddenly open the sea surface with a roaring inhalation, swallowing those seabirds into the mouth! After a full meal, it shifted its position again, so the technique was repeated to swallow the originally clever seabird into its own belly.

Marine science popularization | cat sharks that eat "swan meat" and kissing fish that do not call

▲ Cat shark

Kissing fish without incoming calls

There is a fish that kisses more frequently than the youth in love, called kissing fish, also known as kissing fish, which is the most favorite animal in the world. And because of the frequent kissing, its fish lips are also particularly thick and full. Kissing is generally an act of expressing love, and kissing perch is not the act of calling each other, but a struggle for territory.

Kissing perch has the habit of mouth-to-mouth fighting, when two kissing perch meet, both sides will invariably extend their long lips with many jagged teeth and touch each other vigorously, just like lovers "kissing", not separated for a long time. However, this "hot kiss" is not "courtship", but a fight. Because of the kissing perch's habit of defending the "territory", when the two meet, they use long lips to fight each other to resolve the "territory" dispute, until one side retreats and gives in, and the "kissing" is over.

Marine science popularization | cat sharks that eat "swan meat" and kissing fish that do not call

▲ Kissing perch

This article is from Aquatic Animal Health Assessment (ID:ssdwjkpg)

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