BigBadSteve posted:

Mods pls change thread title to The Fish Majestic.

davidspackage posted:

Oh, manatee.
You sabotage my sanity
Your bulbous humps, and crooks,
And folds,
Justify your vanity
You lie there, teasing,
In the sand,
Helplessly, I reach my hand
And touch your flipper, as we become one
And make such beautiful love in the setting sun.
Oh, the humanity.
The humanity.
Oh... manatee.

Telebite posted:

I nominate the betta



Of course all the pretty colors and fins are human bred mutations. Natural coloration is brown and green with much shorter fins.

Telebite posted:

HardDiskD posted:

The Breakfast Sampler posted:

this living legend, GOAT?

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Many sturgeons leap completely out of the water, usually making a loud splash which can be heard half a mile away on the surface and probably further under water. Why they do this is not known, but suggested functions include group communication to maintain group cohesion, catching airborne prey, courtship display, or to help shed eggs during spawning. Other plausible explanations include escape from predators, shedding parasites, or to gulp or expel air. Another explanation is that it "simply feels good". There have been some incidents of leaping sturgeon landing in boats, and causing injuries to humans; in 2015, a 5-year-old girl was fatally injured after a sturgeon leapt from the Suwannee River and struck her.

Nurge posted:

That's not a fish. MODS?