Starfish

By Ksena | September 5, 2007 12:18 pm |

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Starfish is not actually a fish at all! There are several types of shapes of this nature’s creation: like Sugar starfish, white starfish, Crown of thorns, sunflower star, Bahamian etc. Actually, there are nearly 2000 kinds of sea stars!
We use to think that starfish has its five legs, but some of them have more, which radiate from an indistinct disk, like sunflower fish.
There are about 1,800 known living species of them, and they occur in all of the Earth’s oceans. People often buy starfishes for home aquarium.

Great creation
Starfish

(The common starfish is normally 10-30cm )

Starfish can change its color, can do a lot of fun things with ther legs, but! – they don’t have ears and nose…
Most of its life, starfish moves slowly across the ocean floor.
The next shocked fact: If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish!

Different colors

The next amazing fact:
Starfish are almost unique in the fact that, unlike most other animals, they do not have blood but instead use sea water to pump around their bodies!

And what surprised me more then other facts that, because of this ability to digest food outside of its body, the sea star is able to hunt prey that are much larger than its mouth.
Really, curious, bright monster. )

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A miracle or mistake of the nature?

By Ksena | August 29, 2007 3:59 pm |

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Animals

Let me proceed with the water animal’s subject.

There is no doubt from my side that Hippocampus is some sort of beautiful side effect of sea animal’s origin. It seems, that initial scenario of nature didn’t include appearing of this inconceivable combination in living organism. That is why hippocampus for a long time was covered by few myths.

Hipramul

First of them is that one definite individual is faithful to another during all his life. Romantic, isn’t it?
But recently, the group of British ichthyologist revealed that each its male is able to flirt with a 25 females per day!

This is the real life…dear ladies)

The second unexpected fact is (r u ready?) that around 40% of hippocampuses are homosexual!

So, my dear readers I have a question to you – how could it be that consequences of excessive emancipation have penetrated into the blue depth?)))

What is a Fish

By Angel | August 9, 2007 6:32 am |

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Funnies bunnies

Very very funny funny fish

First of all, fishes are amazing animals, they can vary in size and shape, have different coloring, scales and behavior. A lot of words were told about them, different people treat fishes in different ways: some buy them and make aquariums, some eat them, some capture them and go fishing, some create special aqua parks in order to prevent their dying.

When I was asked to give the definition of a word “fish”, I even didn’t know what to answer and then after a couple of minutes, I gave such an interpretation. A fish is an animal with scales and fins, they live in water, have no lungs, they breathe with a help gills. But such a definition is not correct from the scientific point of view – because, for example, eels – have no fins. There are a lot of species of fish and a lot of classes of fishes. I like exotic fishes very much. They are very beautiful and even can smile.

“Fish” theme is a commonly-used theme. Let’s remember mermaids – girls half-fishes or the “great fish”, that swallowed up Prophet Jonah. The were Saint people that were able to take fish-like appearance: Ika-Roa, Matsya. There is an astrological sign – called Pisces and in the sky we can see a constellation with this title. A lot of cartoons made fishes their main heroes: Finding Nemo, The Mermaid, Shark Tale.

Lovely clown fishes

Have you ever heard something about deep sea fishes? They are very interesting creatures, while looking at them, you can think that they are not from this planet. Actually, it is truth (to some extent). Such fishes swim below the photic zone of the ocean, sometimes there is no natural illumination there, so in order to see the prey and to be able to survive in these severe conditions, these fishes got very strange body and extremely large eyes. Unfortunately, scientist can’t study them thoroughly because these fishes are not able of living in unnatural conditions.

And now tell me, please, how do fishes move? With a help of fins! Yeah? But there are some fishes, they are called “walking fishes” , which can travel over sea floor or land for rather long periods of time. The best representative in this category is a mud-skipper. Such fishes have a special respiratory system that allows them to live without water for a couple of days! Also, there are some fishes, which are still called walking, but their walking is limited to sea floor travelling.

Don’t forget, that Marine is not only a popular name but a first word of Marine Biology, a science that deals with fishes, their preservation. As you know, fishes and water is two inseparable parts – and the total amount of water on the Earth is nearly 1.4 billion km3 and only 3 percent is occupied with fresh (I mean not salt) water. And more than 70 percent of the Planet Earth is in water.

If you don’t have your own aquarium, visit any big aquarium at your city – you won’t be disappointed!