People always like to distinguish things by beauty and ugliness, and people often tend to prefer good-looking people or animals. However, there is a kind of fish that is extremely ugly. Maybe it feels inferior, so it doesn't often appear in front of people. How ugly is this kind of fish? Let's take a look with the editor!
The appearance of the blobfish
This little ugly fish is called "blobfish". It has a tadpole-like body shape, and there is no clear boundary between the head and the body. The blobfish doesn't have fish bones like ordinary fish, which are firm and powerful. Instead, it is soft and sometimes collapses like a water drop. No wonder it is called "blobfish"!
What catches our eyes, of course, is its distorted ugly face. The blobfish has a pair of small eyes on both sides of the head, a big nose just below them, and then a long, big, and curved mouth. And its mouth always shows a sad expression, making it look a little pitiful.
The reason why the blobfish looks ugly is not only because of its facial features but also related to its state. No matter when you look at it, they always seem to be in a very sad state, very depressed and negative. People have therefore given it a title called "the fish with the saddest expression in the world", so many people also directly call them "sad fish".
The structure of the blobfish
The blobfish is generally about 30 centimeters long and has no swim bladder (to help fish maintain buoyancy), so it breathes through gills. However, this body structure also makes it difficult for the blobfish to effectively control its speed in the water.
To maintain buoyancy, the blobfish is composed of gelatinous substances with a density slightly lower than that of water throughout its body. They are some extremely light gel-like substances. It looks similar to jellyfish but not as transparent. Because the density of the blobfish is only slightly lower than that of water, it can help it float up from the bottom of the sea easily. Otherwise, it can only roll around randomly like a submarine that has lost its engine.
However, this also leads to a weakness of the blobfish - inconvenient movement. It can't swim as fast as other fish and is difficult to avoid the disaster of fishing.
The habitat of the blobfish
The blobfish lives at the bottom of the sea 600-1,200 meters along the coasts of Australia and Tasmania. The water pressure is tens of times higher than that at sea level, and it is difficult for humans to reach its habitat. It is said that such a hidden place is not easy to be discovered, and it is even more unbearable for people to bear the air pressure at which people live.
But such a hidden place is not particularly safe. It is difficult for people to dive, but they can cast nets! Due to human fishing, the blobfish has a great safety hazard and has even entered an endangered state.
In fact, the flesh of the blobfish is not suitable for consumption, has no special effects, and is not ornamental. Then why does such an ugly blobfish have such a great survival danger?
The reasons for the endangerment of the blobfish
The blobfish often lives with shrimps and crabs, and their living area happens to be the focus of human fishing. Because of its slow swimming speed, the blobfish is often caught ashore incidentally.
Some people may also wonder why it is not released when it is known to be caught wrongly? That's because fishing is a large-scale labor. People can't spend a lot of time selecting and releasing one by one, and some people think that selling at a low price is also a good choice. So most of the blobfish have to be used as accessories for fishing, being served on the table or dying in a corner where no one is around.
Written at the end
Although the blobfish is not good-looking, it is also a member of nature. If it becomes extinct, it will not be beneficial to human development. Later, people realized the seriousness of the matter and began to control mining and fishing. The large-scale extinction of animals and plants has improved. Studying it helps scientists understand the evolution process of prehistoric fish. So the protection of the blobfish has been put on the agenda.
I hope that humans can live in harmony with nature, and I also hope that this ugly-looking but not very aggressive blobfish can continue to reproduce.