Inquisitive, trusting, and friendly, New South Wales' favorite fish, the Blue Groper, has another trait that makes it special: the females can turn into males!
When a male Blue Groper dies, the largest and most dominant female will turn into a male fish to stabilize the population. "If you take a lot of males out," says Bob Harcourt, associate professor at Macquarie University, "then the females have to spend a lot of their time turning into males, which means they can’t breed and they can't lay eggs."
Before Lucky goes to fish heaven, this cute little girl says her last farewells, noting what a good fish he was, and implying he's better off because he doesn't look so good lying motionless on his side. Forget that she's standing by a toilet as you watch this. It's the thought that counts.
But he has the nagging skills of your average mom. You tell her, fishy!
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This duckling is going to grow up to be some kind of Nobel Peace Prize winning critter. At this tender age, she's totally altruistic and feeding Koi fish one by one in a pond (where else?) in Japan. The fantastic, surreal, land of Japan.
In the spirit of pet equality, John thought it appropriate to take the fish for a walk too. Go Fish!
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The Fish 'n Flush Toilet Tank doubles as an aquarium. AquaOne Technologies, the folks behind this curiosity, worked with a marine biologist to make sure that in the course of flushing, no fish would be harmed. The Fish n' Flush, says their marketing director, was developed to serve "the dual purpose" of being "both a fully functional toilet and also a source of entertainment and conversation."
Introducing: The dark side of cute. This critter is not going to win any prizes at the fish beauty pageant. A fisherman in Turkey accidentally killed it because it scared him so.
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I'm the psycho junk food eater demographic they targeted. And it worked! It's almost too easy.