For all you fish enthusiasts out there, I experienced something about as majestic as a hippopotamus ballet today. For all you people who don’t care about fish past what it tastes like raw over a bed of sushi rice, I get that, I do. I feel the same way about birds. Black bird, blue bird, woohoo, just please don’t poop on me. Give me an ostrich or a penguin though and then we can talk. This is a story about the dodo bird of the fish kingdom: the humphead parrotfish. Stock photo of a bumphead parrotfish. (from Adobe Stock) The humphead parrotfish was very
Edit: apologies but the videos attached to this post were lost when transferring between blogging platforms. What I've seen these past couple days is so darn awesome that I'm attempting to upload a few short (and rather poor quality) video clips despite the internet working against me. Please leave feedback on weather or not they work. So the past two days we signed up to go watch some fish porn! Red snapper spawning to be precise. Most marine species of fish produce eggs. Some families such as wrasses, parrot, surgeon, and snappers release these eggs into open water in a behavior known as spawning. This