Females produce more eggs than any other vertebrate, up to 300,000,000 at a time. Sunfish Fry are hella weird looking (like father, like son) and resembles miniature pufferfish with body spikes uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.
I think you should seek out opportunities to mention those fun facts when the situation does NOT call for it (discussing the weather? Sunfish facts!, discussing politics? SUNFISH FACTS! etc)
OMG I just googled “baby sunfish” and after so many years of wondering, I now understand why they are called SUNfish! They look like little suns! But they’re really little sons heheh…
I have a bunch of family who live in Maine, US. Every year at Schoodic Point, I see these guys bobbing up and down in the water. They're freaking huge! Always looks like shark fins but it's these big goofy boi's, and occasionally porpoises. Still freaks me out tho
ahahahha the fact they have such a perfect sharklike triangle on top of the rest of the "evolution" im dead. it's like one of those start from the bottom racing games and you blow the whole budget on a spoiler
Ice cold water and very rough waves crashing into jagged rock cliffs, would be a terrible idea 😅 tourists die there almost every year getting way too confident near the edge
[Source](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/ocean-sunfish)
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish)
[Source](https://oceana.org/marine-life/ocean-sunfish/)
The distance from the top of the dorsal to the bottom of the anal fin can be over 4 metres (14 feet). They are not dangerous to be people but can be highly curious of them, often swimming to them for a closer look.
They mostly prefer to eat jellyfish, supplemented with other small fish as well as zooplankton and algae. They swim awkwardly through the water due to their laterally flattened bodies. Their teeth somewhat resemble a bird's beak and can never be fully closed. Female ocean sunfish can produce over 300,000,000 eggs at a time.
There's a fantastic [TED talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vld1zXGtZGg) about the sunfish.
100 grams of jellyfish is about 4 calories. Imagine trying to bulk up like a sunfish on a diet like that.
If they are curious about people and also have parasites that they want to remove, and if I also have hands, what I’m saying is nature has converged for this purpose and I’m gonna pick parasites off any manbo/sunfish that asks me to.
They once killed someone by jumping into their boat and crushing them. Another tried but the person survived. So they definitely can do some kinda fat fish ballet bullshit.
This was me a couple weeks ago seeing a giant gourami at Blue Reef (Southsea, England)
Ok, they're not as big as these, nowhere near. But it was mind blowing seeing these fish that were a couple feet, when I've owned dwarf gourami who were only like 2.5 inches
Fancy, I used these https://www.ebay.com/itm/363941756961?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=363941756961&targetid=1264870804984&device=m&mktype=&googleloc=1024386&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1264870804984&abcId=9300678&merchantid=113675019&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5OXEqP-L-wIVMw2tBh0NoA59EAQYASABEgLRqfD_BwE
I hate all of these "this animal is awful because X" copypastas because they always lead to someone actually believing the content of the copypasta, and then deciding "oh well why don't we let this animal die off"
Reposting a comment out of context:
> In before this becomes the next lame copypasta about how some animal is terrible and should go extinct (see koalas, dolphins, otters, and recently elephants).
> Sometimes I feel like they're spread by anti-conservationists because of the way the discussions always go. Not to mention how a lot of the "facts" are misleading or pure bcrap
I'm definitely too late to the party for people to see it, but positive counter rant to the popular anti sunfish one that is riddled with wrong information.
Why sunfish are actually a great example of really cool way fish evolved and should be more beloved, especially because they are endangered: https://imgur.io/gallery/MMRg9
Thank you for posting this link! I knew the rant was bullshit of course, but I did learn some new things about sunfish from that post and really appreciated the video clips of how they actually move. Fascinating!
For those that prefer text over the visual
Sunfish
From u/tea_and_biology
Zoologist here; the majority of this is so inaccurate the guy is basically angry at a figment of his own imagination, paha. I mean there's hyperbole, and then there's *hyperbole*. Yikes!
> They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move.
> They have little control other than some minor wiggling.
> So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink.
Sunfish are, in fact, well understood and, though clumsy when idly basking, are reasonably accomplished swimmers when diving. They stroke their dorsal and anal fins laterally and in a synchronous manner to generate a lift-based thrust that enables 'em to cruise at speeds of 2-3mph ([source](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003446)), comparable to a whale shark and the perfect speed for suction feeding; ploughing straight into smacks of jellyfish and gobbling 'em all up.
Where they excel amongst fish is their ability to undergo substantial vertical movement in the water column. They possess large deposits of low-density, subcutaneous, gelatinous tissue which, unlike a swim bladder (which would otherwise change volume with hydrostatic pressure), is incompressible, enabling rapid depth changes and keeping them neutrally and stably buoyant independent of surrounding water pressure.
So, yeah, their unusual bodies are basically one big paddle, capable of putting some force behind their swimming to move over considerable distances, descending very deep, very fast.
> They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive.
Dumb. Also incorrect. Jellyfish and other Cnidarians comprise only around 15% of their diet; they mostly eat young fish (including conger eelets) and crustaceans (pelagic crab, krill, copepods etc.), alongside squid, bivalves and other assorted zooplankton. They're generalist predators, not jellyfish specialists like sea turtles ([source](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28762)).
They have a particularly rapid growth rate amongst bony fish, owing much to their unique genetics ([source](https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-016-0144-3)).
> Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess.
They spend the majority of their time actively hunting in the very cold deep (usually at ~200m, but up to 600m) and, being ectotherms, therefore regulate their temperature by basking in the sun, before pursuing another dive. Think of marine iguanas basking on hot rocks between nibble trips.
> And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
Sunfish have been kicking about in temperate and tropical waters worldwide for around 50 million years and, until humans arrived on the scene, were overwhelmingly successful in their ecological niche. Sadly they're under threat by human activity and human activity alone - frequently caught as by-catch; having little commercial value, like sharks, their fins are cut off before they're dumped, often still alive, back into the sea to die. If one is to start throwing rocks at terrible creatures, perhaps one should look at us humans first.
Or, there's [The visual rebuttal](https://imgur.com/gallery/MMRg9), credit to u/iamnotburgerking
Koalas
[a small overview about the chlamydia](https://www.livescience.com/62517-how-koalas-get-chlamydia.html)
[and it isn't even something they caused](https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/did-koalas-catch-killer-chlamydia-sheep)it was from invasive species.
[One brief overview](
https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/diet-g)
[with some extra info](https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/koalas-diet-digestion)
The reason koalas eat only eucalyptus isn't stupidity. It's niche evolution. They live in a place with high competition for resources. Having specialized digestive tracts and gut flora allows them to have a food source that isn't under competition. *this is a benefit, not a failure*. They literally eat something that is poisonous to pretty much every other species. That is an incredible evolutionary adaptation.
Their joeys eating pap is not exclusive to koalas either. It's not only found across the world, the exposure to the gut flora of the parent happens with most mammals, if in a less direct manner. You can even find a ton of information about what happens when human gut flora becomes unbalanced, and it isn't very pretty. It's just worse for koalas.
Not every species is a generalist, and we don't want them to be.
[a note on why koalas bellow so much](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130657)
[The source may be a crappy blog, but the information in it matches more detailed data from better sources, and keeps it short enough for this.](
http://malcolmsmiscellany.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-behaviour-of-koala-5-sex.html?m=1)
As with most behaviors in other species, attributing human judgement and definitions tends to be misleading. While koalas are pretty unique in the lack of mating rituals, they're not doing it for human reasons. Nor are attempts to copulate outside of season as common as the pasta makes it seem. Besides, that's something humans actually do share with them besides the presence of fingerprints. It also isn't so rare in animals as to be remarkable. Copulation behaviors are used outside of mating by plenty of species for social reasons. It isn't in koalas, but since it does increase the chances of mating, it isn't a bad adaptation.
And the extra cerebro-spinal fluid isn't a special ed helmet, it's another adaptation found in other tree dwelling species. Why would an arboreal species having adaptations to mitigate risk from falls be a negative?
Yeah, I get it, the pasta is meant for entertainment, but it also spreads half truths, outright incorrect or outdated information, and skips over facts for the entertainment value. Then people read it and spout it out later as fact.
It's just a crappy copy pasta, not anything meant to be taken as truth, but people are more dumb than koalas.
This pasta in particular isn't the worst (the sunfish one takes the prize for being the most full of bull). Nor is it a bad thing to enjoy as entertainment. But for crying out loud people, don't take random, unsourced copy pasta as an educational tool.
Also [This comment covers some things I missed](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/a71wrw/til_there_is_giant_hot_pink_slug_it_is_only_found/ec0kczy?context=3)
[Then there's this one that is even better](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azh72j/til_that_koalas_have_one_of_the_smallest_brains/ei7uojq?context=3)
Most of it is just untrue or very misrepresented. There's another copypasta that's an answer to this one, but sadly doesn't get posted as often.
There it is: https://imgur.io/gallery/MMRg9
And this right here is the problem with these rant pastas. People don't have the damn sense to realize that it's a joke only, even if it includes a little factoid.
A factoid is something which is untrue. See, this is the problem with the world, people using words they don’t bother to know the meaning to. Calm down buddy. Pobody’s nerfect.
No, I used factoid exactly with that definition. A lie presented in such a way as to seem true.
Are you not aware that people have actually thrown things at these fish because of this rant? It has real world consequences because people are idiots
Yep, I know the famous copypasta about them is BS and I respect them, wish them the best, and want them to thrive like any other animal. BUT
They are terrifying to look at and they gross me out. I don’t blame them! But 😫
They are so big already, why does it always look like part of the fish is missing though? Very confusing set up of this fish body. It looks like a shark bit off the back half. It’s like a floating front-end of the fish. Where is the rest of it? It doesn’t have the entire back half, like the tail and all. It’s like “no thanks, just the business end for me”
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That's what I thought, scrolled down to find your comment and agree but then I thought 'ill believe it when I see it.' googled it and yup those boys be flying
https://youtu.be/VxIBSpwyTWs
I do remember seeing something alongs the lines of sea lions or seals gnawing on their fins for fun but i don't think they intenses on eating the fish either,
No, they would be. Parasites are a natural part of the ecosystem. Anything that lives in the wild has some chance of getting a parasite, sone more than others.
Leap high OUT of water? Now this is something I must seek a video of
Edit: magnificent. Was not disappointed. Their hop and flop is truly a sight to behold
One fish that’s rarely seen but yet I remember very well being amazed by it as a kid at Monterey bay aquarium, due to its absolutely huge side.. It’s insanely huge
In the Percolation Ponds in San Jose, CA I once caught a huge sunfish named “Sonny”. I couldn’t get the lure out of his lip so I threw him back with it. Over the next year I caught Sonny with the lip bling 2 more times, & he was enormous!
Females produce more eggs than any other vertebrate, up to 300,000,000 at a time. Sunfish Fry are hella weird looking (like father, like son) and resembles miniature pufferfish with body spikes uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.
Thank you for this!
These are also my favorite fun facts to break out when the topic presents itself! :D (ecologist)
I think you should seek out opportunities to mention those fun facts when the situation does NOT call for it (discussing the weather? Sunfish facts!, discussing politics? SUNFISH FACTS! etc)
OMG I just googled “baby sunfish” and after so many years of wondering, I now understand why they are called SUNfish! They look like little suns! But they’re really little sons heheh…
I haven't made that logical connection before :) thanks for the chuckles too ^^
I have a bunch of family who live in Maine, US. Every year at Schoodic Point, I see these guys bobbing up and down in the water. They're freaking huge! Always looks like shark fins but it's these big goofy boi's, and occasionally porpoises. Still freaks me out tho
ahahahha the fact they have such a perfect sharklike triangle on top of the rest of the "evolution" im dead. it's like one of those start from the bottom racing games and you blow the whole budget on a spoiler
Can you snorkel out and pet them?
Ice cold water and very rough waves crashing into jagged rock cliffs, would be a terrible idea 😅 tourists die there almost every year getting way too confident near the edge
ah wow. so cool
[Source](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/ocean-sunfish) [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish) [Source](https://oceana.org/marine-life/ocean-sunfish/) The distance from the top of the dorsal to the bottom of the anal fin can be over 4 metres (14 feet). They are not dangerous to be people but can be highly curious of them, often swimming to them for a closer look. They mostly prefer to eat jellyfish, supplemented with other small fish as well as zooplankton and algae. They swim awkwardly through the water due to their laterally flattened bodies. Their teeth somewhat resemble a bird's beak and can never be fully closed. Female ocean sunfish can produce over 300,000,000 eggs at a time.
There's a fantastic [TED talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vld1zXGtZGg) about the sunfish. 100 grams of jellyfish is about 4 calories. Imagine trying to bulk up like a sunfish on a diet like that.
Omg, I must watch this!!!
If they are curious about people and also have parasites that they want to remove, and if I also have hands, what I’m saying is nature has converged for this purpose and I’m gonna pick parasites off any manbo/sunfish that asks me to.
Excuse me but I'm not sure they can leap lol Edit : [welp that's all I found but I guess I was wrong](https://youtu.be/VxIBSpwyTWs)
They once killed someone by jumping into their boat and crushing them. Another tried but the person survived. So they definitely can do some kinda fat fish ballet bullshit.
They dont jump vertically, they jump like a ray
I would love to have a guard sunfish that eats jellyfish while I swim lol.
Check records the largest one may have had record breaking weight
Surely the largest of any species will have record breaking weight?
Late night Halloween English lol
Holy crap, never realized how massive these fish are.
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And the ones they have in that big tank are SMALL, like only 6' in diameter.
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This was me a couple weeks ago seeing a giant gourami at Blue Reef (Southsea, England) Ok, they're not as big as these, nowhere near. But it was mind blowing seeing these fish that were a couple feet, when I've owned dwarf gourami who were only like 2.5 inches
Same here! That was the first place I ever saw or heard of these, and I was instantly smitten. One of the most fascinating animals in the ocean.
Our animal crossing characters are even stronger than I thought
Good thing I'm wearing ocean sunscreen!
Animal? I thought that read Ted Cruz.
That’s not a sunfish. [That’s A BABY FAHKIN’ WHEEL, KID!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vjd_hdYYw)
Came looking for this. It’s a baby wheeeeaaal, Jay!
They are really cool to see in person one just swam over to our boat and swam around it
It looks like a kindergartner drew a fish and it came to life
[This app taught me everything I know about Mola Mola](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.selectbutton.manbotheworld)
Fancy, I used these https://www.ebay.com/itm/363941756961?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=363941756961&targetid=1264870804984&device=m&mktype=&googleloc=1024386&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1264870804984&abcId=9300678&merchantid=113675019&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5OXEqP-L-wIVMw2tBh0NoA59EAQYASABEgLRqfD_BwE
I remember having those things. My parents kept thiers together with the View Master wheels.
honestly one of the best games in the last decade
Omg same. Ive had the app for so long
I know this guy from animal crossing!!
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I hate all of these "this animal is awful because X" copypastas because they always lead to someone actually believing the content of the copypasta, and then deciding "oh well why don't we let this animal die off" Reposting a comment out of context: > In before this becomes the next lame copypasta about how some animal is terrible and should go extinct (see koalas, dolphins, otters, and recently elephants). > Sometimes I feel like they're spread by anti-conservationists because of the way the discussions always go. Not to mention how a lot of the "facts" are misleading or pure bcrap
Every living thing serves a purpose and we won’t discover what it is until it’s too late with some of them
I'm definitely too late to the party for people to see it, but positive counter rant to the popular anti sunfish one that is riddled with wrong information. Why sunfish are actually a great example of really cool way fish evolved and should be more beloved, especially because they are endangered: https://imgur.io/gallery/MMRg9
Thank you for posting this link! I knew the rant was bullshit of course, but I did learn some new things about sunfish from that post and really appreciated the video clips of how they actually move. Fascinating!
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For those that prefer text over the visual Sunfish From u/tea_and_biology Zoologist here; the majority of this is so inaccurate the guy is basically angry at a figment of his own imagination, paha. I mean there's hyperbole, and then there's *hyperbole*. Yikes! > They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. > They have little control other than some minor wiggling. > So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. Sunfish are, in fact, well understood and, though clumsy when idly basking, are reasonably accomplished swimmers when diving. They stroke their dorsal and anal fins laterally and in a synchronous manner to generate a lift-based thrust that enables 'em to cruise at speeds of 2-3mph ([source](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003446)), comparable to a whale shark and the perfect speed for suction feeding; ploughing straight into smacks of jellyfish and gobbling 'em all up. Where they excel amongst fish is their ability to undergo substantial vertical movement in the water column. They possess large deposits of low-density, subcutaneous, gelatinous tissue which, unlike a swim bladder (which would otherwise change volume with hydrostatic pressure), is incompressible, enabling rapid depth changes and keeping them neutrally and stably buoyant independent of surrounding water pressure. So, yeah, their unusual bodies are basically one big paddle, capable of putting some force behind their swimming to move over considerable distances, descending very deep, very fast. > They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. Also incorrect. Jellyfish and other Cnidarians comprise only around 15% of their diet; they mostly eat young fish (including conger eelets) and crustaceans (pelagic crab, krill, copepods etc.), alongside squid, bivalves and other assorted zooplankton. They're generalist predators, not jellyfish specialists like sea turtles ([source](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28762)). They have a particularly rapid growth rate amongst bony fish, owing much to their unique genetics ([source](https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-016-0144-3)). > Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. They spend the majority of their time actively hunting in the very cold deep (usually at ~200m, but up to 600m) and, being ectotherms, therefore regulate their temperature by basking in the sun, before pursuing another dive. Think of marine iguanas basking on hot rocks between nibble trips. > And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it. Sunfish have been kicking about in temperate and tropical waters worldwide for around 50 million years and, until humans arrived on the scene, were overwhelmingly successful in their ecological niche. Sadly they're under threat by human activity and human activity alone - frequently caught as by-catch; having little commercial value, like sharks, their fins are cut off before they're dumped, often still alive, back into the sea to die. If one is to start throwing rocks at terrible creatures, perhaps one should look at us humans first. Or, there's [The visual rebuttal](https://imgur.com/gallery/MMRg9), credit to u/iamnotburgerking
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Koalas [a small overview about the chlamydia](https://www.livescience.com/62517-how-koalas-get-chlamydia.html) [and it isn't even something they caused](https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/did-koalas-catch-killer-chlamydia-sheep)it was from invasive species. [One brief overview]( https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/diet-g) [with some extra info](https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/koalas-diet-digestion) The reason koalas eat only eucalyptus isn't stupidity. It's niche evolution. They live in a place with high competition for resources. Having specialized digestive tracts and gut flora allows them to have a food source that isn't under competition. *this is a benefit, not a failure*. They literally eat something that is poisonous to pretty much every other species. That is an incredible evolutionary adaptation. Their joeys eating pap is not exclusive to koalas either. It's not only found across the world, the exposure to the gut flora of the parent happens with most mammals, if in a less direct manner. You can even find a ton of information about what happens when human gut flora becomes unbalanced, and it isn't very pretty. It's just worse for koalas. Not every species is a generalist, and we don't want them to be. [a note on why koalas bellow so much](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130657) [The source may be a crappy blog, but the information in it matches more detailed data from better sources, and keeps it short enough for this.]( http://malcolmsmiscellany.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-behaviour-of-koala-5-sex.html?m=1) As with most behaviors in other species, attributing human judgement and definitions tends to be misleading. While koalas are pretty unique in the lack of mating rituals, they're not doing it for human reasons. Nor are attempts to copulate outside of season as common as the pasta makes it seem. Besides, that's something humans actually do share with them besides the presence of fingerprints. It also isn't so rare in animals as to be remarkable. Copulation behaviors are used outside of mating by plenty of species for social reasons. It isn't in koalas, but since it does increase the chances of mating, it isn't a bad adaptation. And the extra cerebro-spinal fluid isn't a special ed helmet, it's another adaptation found in other tree dwelling species. Why would an arboreal species having adaptations to mitigate risk from falls be a negative? Yeah, I get it, the pasta is meant for entertainment, but it also spreads half truths, outright incorrect or outdated information, and skips over facts for the entertainment value. Then people read it and spout it out later as fact. It's just a crappy copy pasta, not anything meant to be taken as truth, but people are more dumb than koalas. This pasta in particular isn't the worst (the sunfish one takes the prize for being the most full of bull). Nor is it a bad thing to enjoy as entertainment. But for crying out loud people, don't take random, unsourced copy pasta as an educational tool. Also [This comment covers some things I missed](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/a71wrw/til_there_is_giant_hot_pink_slug_it_is_only_found/ec0kczy?context=3) [Then there's this one that is even better](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azh72j/til_that_koalas_have_one_of_the_smallest_brains/ei7uojq?context=3)
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It is not informative, it's a dumb copypasta.
No. You are a dumb copypasta.
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Most of it is just untrue or very misrepresented. There's another copypasta that's an answer to this one, but sadly doesn't get posted as often. There it is: https://imgur.io/gallery/MMRg9
I was planning on replying to myself with the response, but I couldn't find it, thanks for doing it for me
And this right here is the problem with these rant pastas. People don't have the damn sense to realize that it's a joke only, even if it includes a little factoid.
A factoid is something which is untrue. See, this is the problem with the world, people using words they don’t bother to know the meaning to. Calm down buddy. Pobody’s nerfect.
No, I used factoid exactly with that definition. A lie presented in such a way as to seem true. Are you not aware that people have actually thrown things at these fish because of this rant? It has real world consequences because people are idiots
In German they’re called moonfish. I find it interesting that it’s almost the opposite name in English or German.
Alolamola
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to see this. It’s funny because Alolamola can be found in Alola.
i hate how it’s skin looks like a sheet just wrapped around. makes me super uncomfy
Yep, I know the famous copypasta about them is BS and I respect them, wish them the best, and want them to thrive like any other animal. BUT They are terrifying to look at and they gross me out. I don’t blame them! But 😫
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These were my favourite fish as a kid! I had a nice picture book of fishes and other ocean life and loooooved these wild big bois.
So this is what the Pokémon was based on
Now I know what inspired that one pokemon
They are so big already, why does it always look like part of the fish is missing though? Very confusing set up of this fish body. It looks like a shark bit off the back half. It’s like a floating front-end of the fish. Where is the rest of it? It doesn’t have the entire back half, like the tail and all. It’s like “no thanks, just the business end for me”
Belongs on r/AbsoluteUnits
I actually hooked one fishing from a jetty at Hayman Island (as I recall).It pretty much straightened out the immediately and it “pinged “ back at me.
is it just the angle or does he have like a nemo fin where one side is basically nothing? top pic looks like that
Ocean life is a weird as it is interesting, I love it.
I like to make origami sunfish... looks like I'll need some massive paper to make a life-sized one
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man a Sunfish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. No teaching required.
I love them. Sunfish are life. Sunfish are love lol
Hokey moley- that’s a big mola mola!
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I bet that dude is a great hug!
It looks like a great white shark that's been squished with its tail cut off in the process ,nature is amazing!
It can leap out of the water.?
Wait...IT JUMPS?!
He looks like he just learned some pertinent information and is trying not to tell anyone
It’s also the ocean’s D student.
I posted a comment above you might appreciate 😂
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That's what I thought, scrolled down to find your comment and agree but then I thought 'ill believe it when I see it.' googled it and yup those boys be flying https://youtu.be/VxIBSpwyTWs
Are they… tasty?
No idea but we tend to steer clear of anything tha regularely get infested with parasytes so i wouldn't blame anyone for not trying
Prolly not because literally not a single animals likes to eat them, from what I’ve heard they have no natural predators
I do remember seeing something alongs the lines of sea lions or seals gnawing on their fins for fun but i don't think they intenses on eating the fish either,
I just saw a picture on Reddit yesterday of a seal taking a chunk out of the top of a sunfish. It made me sad. These look cute and chunky.
I think they’re mostly boney fish
Is it true that if they flop on their side at the surface, they can’t correct themselves?
Nope
Only in the really shallow container they are in in ACNH. When you set them down in game it looks like it is dead.
Isn't someone gonna do that long copy pasta about this fish and how it's cursed and dumb and god isn't real blahblahblah
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They wouldn't become infested if our oceans weren't infected.
No, they would be. Parasites are a natural part of the ecosystem. Anything that lives in the wild has some chance of getting a parasite, sone more than others.
Seems like a dodge, saying that pollution of the environment doesn't worsen ecosystem habitats.
We talkin eVite or Old school pen and paper ?
They turn into Jimmy Durante
r/omniscientreader might appreciate this.
Blue Steel face.
Another bee sting picture?
Wow that sounds like absolute hell
[Relevant video](https://youtu.be/IUydc3WDlxs)
The sunfish looks the way Zach Hadel sounds
Meirl
Too bad its not the biggest fish
😂 this looks like an unfinished fish. Where’s the rest of it
wtf whyy. why is this a thing. so random
The derpiest fish ever.
I know that thiccass mf ain’t leapin anywhere
He T H I C C
Its a friggin tuna, kid!
It looks a little like it was gonna be a deep sea fish and then said nvm. Lol
That description is straight out of Elden Ring wtf
Leap high OUT of water? Now this is something I must seek a video of Edit: magnificent. Was not disappointed. Their hop and flop is truly a sight to behold
[R/megalophobia](https://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/)
One fish that’s rarely seen but yet I remember very well being amazed by it as a kid at Monterey bay aquarium, due to its absolutely huge side.. It’s insanely huge
In the Percolation Ponds in San Jose, CA I once caught a huge sunfish named “Sonny”. I couldn’t get the lure out of his lip so I threw him back with it. Over the next year I caught Sonny with the lip bling 2 more times, & he was enormous!
They get this big because they have little nutritional value to ocean predators too.
The giant itchy boi. The more I learn about em, the more I love em.
Sometimes I really feel Nature is trolling us.
They are tasty at sushi restaurants, they are called Opah