True Facts: Mudskippers

this is Leonard Leonard is a mudskipper fish from the front mudskippers look a bit like a profile picture of the middle-aged divorced dad on tinder chillin poolside in Cabo just had the guacamole ashtag spicy however Leonard is a very special fish the tone twink mudskippers are a fear that spend a portion of their day living out of the water most fish if you take them out of the water become a bit of a downer and by that I mean dead but Leonard isn't dead because Leonard can breathe air we can do this through his specialized skin and by gulping air into his mouth parts which are lined with blood vessels very close to the surface getting around isn't easy if your basic body plan is designed to do floaty floaty in the water gravity can be a bit of a our fish ancestors had bony muscular fins fins that could evolve into strong limbs and elbows to help push against gravity as they crawled onto shore Gerry what is this footage I'm talking about an ancient fish crawling out of the well this isn't better yes I can see she's crawling Gerry but she's a person all right well that's a dead fish but mudskippers come from a different evolutionary line of fish fish with floppier webbed fins excellent demonstrating Leonard the same line that led to the goldfish and I'm not judging the goldfish I knew it's hard with the ping pong balls of the State Fair and the toilet flushing but you wouldn't really ask a goldfish to help you move apartments but mudskipper don't give a crap what line he's from mudskipper will use the parts he was given with a few little modifications its pelvic fins on the bottom are fused to form a sort of suction cup this allows them to hold onto surfaces and even climb imagine what you could climb if you had sticky nipples for a casual stroll the mudskipper employs a movement called crutching which looks a little like trying to get to the remote after squats day at the gym it prompts itself up with its pelvic fins and then pulls itself forward with its pectoral fins dragging its motionless tail behind but if the going gets rough or it needs a bit of extra speed the tail springs into action it curls in pigs e'en and helps propel the body forward will hook their tiger sorry I have to show you the leaping blenny it's a different fish that uses a similar movement but with a twist and sometimes the twist gets a little out of control it just looks fun having speed and good ups helps if you're a carnivore which many mudskippers are it's like he's smoking a little cigar yeah but eating on land brings another challenge for the fish here try this lie down on your stomach in front of a chicken nugget now try and swallow that nugget without using your tongue I can see you're not doing it well then don't start thinking about your tongue don't concentrate on the big fleshy slug-like thing filling up your mouth in any case the mudskipper doesn't have a tongue so to swallow on land the mudskipper seems to use water that it stores in its mouth parts as a kind of hydro tongue it pushes water out of its mouth as it grabs its food and then it kind of sucks it all back in and the water helps transport the food back towards the tummy parts now to prove that it was the water they did it again but this time they put the food on I quote the center of always Ultra normal plus sanitary paths with the water absorbed the food could not make its way back to the Tumtum and the mudskipper has an interesting story to tell his friends science the mudskipper needs water it is a fish after all and it likes to be moist like that drip of sweat rolling down the small of your back into your butt crack because you decided to wear jeans on that hike sort of moist moist like testicles in a freezing pool its eyeballs can retract into dermal cups that retain water to keep them moist for protection and mating the mudskipper digs burrows with its mouth one of the bummers of not being able to use a shovel they are very territorial animals sometimes a simple dorsal fin displays enough to ward off a trespasser but other times oh when it's time to lay eggs the male and female retreat into the Burrow the eggs are placed in an air-filled chamber because the surrounding water lacks oxygen when its hatching time the male gulps the air out of the chamber submerged in water the mudskipper babies can hatch and swim up been out of their hidey holes to the surface remember just because you don't have the big boney muscly fins doesn't mean that you can't do incredible things with what you are given that is how the mudskipper do the toink toink just had first date with Karen she's very assertive loved it she got us free dessert because her bloomin onion wasn't cut right seems to know the manager hashtag hot [Music]

Channel: zefrank1

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Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 16 2019

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[u/rocketshipray]

I missed zefrank so bad and didn't realize he was on youtube! So thanks for that information reaching my noggin!

But also that was kind of fascinating and I wish that he'd re-narrate the BBC nature documentaries.

Lastly, I've honestly never been more turned on by the way someone said "moist."