According to the introduction of "China on the Tip of the Tongue Season 2": Mudskipper, also known as jumping fish, is a fish that can live on land, do not try to catch them, unless you are willing to use 5 years to practice a special skill.
Isn't it just a fish, and what's so special about it except that you can leave the water and continue living? If you want to fish it, it will take you 5 years to learn? Is it possible to commit such a "big move"?
But it is not a "simple" fish, and it has taken 300 million years to adapt to a new life on land.
"China on the Tip of the Tongue Season 2" footage: a mudskipper jumping
Mudskippers are small species of fish that originally belong to the marine species and are always found in the mud of coastal shoals. From the physiological point of view, mudskippers have gills and are real fish. They can survive both in seawater and fresh water, and they can also live on land. Mudskippers breathe through the skin, but need to keep their bodies moist, so mudskippers often appear in shallow shoals or ponds with water.
Mudskippers jumping into the air
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As a small amphibious fish species, mudskippers also have a strong adaptability to the environment, and can also be "unscathed" in the face of long-distance transportation, which is also the ability of mudskippers after continuous evolution.
1. The birthplace of mudskippers
Mudskipper belongs to the spiny fin fish family, distributed all over the world, a total of 25 species of mudskippers, can be divided into: Scatlaus, wave mudskipper characteristics of Ophthalmism, Perioof Salmes, Perioofsholmedon These 4 species, China coastal mainly has 3 genera and 6 species, namely mudskipper, large mudskipper, green mudskipper, and large green mudskipper.
2. The evolutionary history of mudskippers
300 million years ago, mudskippers, like ordinary fish, had no "limbs" and swam in the water to feed on their fins and tails. However, with the change of the natural environment, in order to survive better, some organisms on the earth choose to come to the ocean from land, and some organisms choose to go to land. After 300 million years of evolution, the mudskipper has successfully adapted to life on land, evolving limbs that can help it "crawl" forward.
3. The appearance and form of mudskipper fish
From the appearance point of view, the mudskipper is somewhat cute and cute, and it is similar to the loach in form. But when they jump, the fins open like small "sailfish". Mudskippers can touch the fins on their abdomen and "walk" in the mud quickly and flexibly, which is why it is difficult for us to catch them directly with our hands.
Summary: Smaller mudskippers, in order to better adapt to the current living space, they have chosen to constantly evolve themselves. Although the appearance of the mudskippers we see today is a bit cute, they have achieved a breakthrough in themselves at this time and can better adapt to the current living environment.
Silly mudskippers
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > physiological characteristics of mudskippers</h1>
Mudskippers are found all over the world and have always been at the leading level in population holdings. From today's point of view, the mudskippers are so wise to decide to leave the ocean and go to land. So what is so special about this smaller mudskipper?
1. Adaptability of mudskippers
Mudskippers have a strong adaptability to the environment, and they have strong oxygen tolerance and disease tolerance. At low tide, a tidal flat is often formed on the beach, where mudskippers forage.
2. Eating habits of mudskippers
Mudskippers are an omnivorous fish species that are not too picky about food, and plankton, sand silkworms, copepods, branches and benthic diatoms or blue-green algae are all food sources for mudskippers.
Mudskipper dancing a courtship dance
3. Breeding method of mudskippers
In April to September of each year, mudskippers gradually enter the breeding period, when the males will first "dig" a good burrow in the mud, each will look for a mate after the low tide, they will dance a courtship dance in front of the female, in order to cause the attraction of the opposite sex, the color of the male body surface at this time will often change from earthy brown to lighter gray-brown, in order to better attract the attention of the female. Mudskippers can lay 10,000 eggs, but their growth rate is relatively slow, depending on the food source, mudskippers generally take 7 to 10 months to grow from juvenile to adult.
Summary: The small mudskippers can be widely distributed in many parts of the world, and have witnessed the "evolutionary history" of the earth, which shows how adaptable they are to the environment. In the face of different living environments in foreign countries, they can still survive gracefully and calmly, which also establishes the status of their populations.
Mudskippers
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > why mudskippers "climb" onto land</h1>
Compared with the terrestrial environment, the food in the ocean is often more abundant, but why do the mudskippers who originally lived in the ocean spend a lot of time and energy to get themselves out of the "shackles" of the ocean?
1. Avoid predators
In the vast marine environment, although there is a relatively abundant source of food, it is also dangerous in the ocean. Smaller mudskippers, which appear extremely small in the marine world and are often a food source for other creatures, may be the best choice to "climb" the land to better perpetuate the race.
2. Environmental changes
In this whole three hundred million years, although we cannot accurately know what kind of changes occurred on the earth at that time, the evolution of a race is inseparable from the changes in the environment. Therefore, the reason why mudskippers chose to "climb the mountain" on land was inevitably related to the changes in the environment at that time.
Summary: For these smaller mudskippers, they work hard to "get themselves out of" the ocean for "self-preservation" reasons, and after spending a full 300 million years, they finally succeeded, and perhaps they never thought that there was another "big enemy" of theirs on land- humans.
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Although they are small, mudskippers can move quickly in the mud, and when you are still 1 to 2 meters away from them, they will quickly escape. But for the wise people, even if the mudskippers are cunning, as long as they are targeted, they are often "doomed".
1. Serve it to the table
In his essay "Hometown", Mr. Lu Xun described the scene of catching "jumping fish by the sea" in leaping soil, "the mud fish that does not slip in autumn and jumps with the tide, its appearance is not proud, but it is delicious in seafood." It can be seen that the deliciousness of mudskippers has long been known to the Chinese people. Nowadays, with the improvement of the living standards of the Chinese people, the mudskippers that have long been put on the table have now been recognized by more and more people.
2. Artificial breeding
Petite mudskippers are often difficult to catch, and if we blindly catch wild mudskippers, we often end up with no fish to catch. Therefore, the people full of wisdom began to artificially cultivate mudskippers early, and the cultivation of mudskippers has long been prevalent in Taiwan and some parts of Southeast Asia in order to meet the needs of domestic diners. In Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and other places in China, mudskipper fish is known as "edible good", and mudskipper fish also has a good demand in the world.
3. Capture method
When faced with agile and cautious mudskippers, it is not easy to catch them smoothly. But in the face of the wise chinese, all this is not difficult, and there are ways to catch mudskippers.
a. Cage hunting
In some coastal cities, local residents often weave cages with bamboo, and after low tide, special cages are placed above the burrows of mudfish, and the cages are compacted with silt to avoid mudfish from knocking over and escaping. Each time the cage is used to catch mudskipper, the locals will carry multiple cages at the same time, starting from one end of the mud field, and when the cages are all placed, they will start to collect the first cage, and repeatedly catch the mudskipper in the mud in this way.
In the scenes of "China on the Tip of the Tongue Season 2": "Fishing" mudfish
b、“钓”
Compared to catching mudskippers with cages, catching mudskippers in a "fishing" fashion requires a certain amount of skill, which is not strictly speaking real fishing, but anchor. Anglers generally prepare a 6 m rod and tie a 6 m fishing line to it, and an anchor hook is fixed at the end of the line. After finding the mudskipper, first throw the anchor hook in front of the mudskipper, and then retract the anchor hook, at which point the anchor hook will stab the mudskipper and "fish" it back. According to locals, mastering this "fishing" mudskipper skill often takes about 5 years to learn and practice.
Summary: For domestic foodies, the deliciousness of mudskippers is irresistible, and although it is natural to bring them to the table, in the case of insufficient supply, mudskippers have also been successfully "captive". As the saying goes, "The people put food first", and the power of foodies is indeed powerful.
Simple cooking of mudskipper
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The decline and extinction of species since antiquity can often take several ways, starting with the devastating blow of natural disasters, or the persecution of other species or among this species. For mudskippers, they have experienced the baptism of time, but the entire species has been continued and multiplied, which is also related to their own ability to adapt to the environment.
Maybe for mudskippers, they spent 300 million years evolving from me, and finally managed to "break away" from the sea and live on land, but they never imagined that when they "climbed" on land, they encountered Chinese. Of course, the deliciousness of mudskipper is not unique to our people, and there are many food lovers in the world who have a special love for mudskipper.
"Fishing is fun, different realms, different tastes." I hope that today's sharing can help everyone, I am a wild fishing competition, a fishing enthusiast with many years of fishing experience, welcome everyone to pay attention to me, explore the fun of fishing.
References: China on the Tip of the Tongue, Baidu Library