Friday, August 21, 2020

Quick Tumblr Thread on the Impostor Cleaner Fish


We knew there were tons of extremely specialized, gross and miserable animals. Y'know, like wasps that lay eggs in living things or fish that swim up pee holes. It looks like this guy just got added to the list. For more animal tumblr stuff, here's a tumblr meltdown after someone says fish aren't animals, and a tumblr thread on farm animals that takes a dark turn.

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Text - REI tilthat Follow TIL that in the ocean there exists biotic cleaning stations, where fish will go to be serviced by certain species of fish and shrimp who remove dead skin and parasites. via ift.tt bogleech Follow Different fish wait in line for it and even though most marine fish are predators they tend to treat the station as like a peaceful zone

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Adaptation - bogleech Follow Oh but there are also these little fuckers who imitate cleaner fish so other fish will come to them thinking they're gonna be cleaned, but that little cute smile they have is just because their mouth doesn't close well around these:

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Fish - those fangs have now been found to inject an anesthetic so their victims don't notice that the fake cleaner fish is biting chunks out of them

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Text - armchair-factotum Follow I drive into the car wash and the attendant chloroforms me so I don't notice him stealing my tires and windows Source: tilthat

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