Finn's Fish Talk

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Speaking of Barnaby.. He's actually on a playdate with Shrimpo right now! I'm shore he's taking fin-omenal care of him!

To dive deeper into how elephant seals are able to hold their breath for that long . . . it all lies in their blood! Elephant seals have three times as much blood as a human does, and their blood is very rich in a protein called hemoglobin, which is what carries oxygen through the bloodstream! You know that shock you f-eel when you jump into cold water? That's your body attempting to conserve oxygen and blood flow to your vital organs. What it's doing is slowing down your meta-bowl-ism! In elephant seals, this natural response is much stronger. Their heart rate slows down to as little at 2-3 beats per minute! Isn't that cray-zy?!

Another fin-teresting fact is that they can drink sea water! For most animals, sea water is MUCH too salty to digest without getting even more dehydrated!! While they drink out of melt pools when they can for fresh water, they also have a gland called a supraorbital gland above their eyes that filter the salt out of their bloodstream! The salt goes away when they sneeze or otherwise exits their bodies through their bills. Also, in order to stay warm when swimming in freezing water, penguins are waterproof! Their preen gland secretes an oil that coats their feathers and allows water to slide right off! One big fact that contributes to their flightless nature is their dense bones. Other birds have hollow, fragile bones that make them lighter to help with flying, boat penguins have dense bones that make them sink and move through the water easier! If their bones were hollow, it would be nearly shrimp-ossible to dive as deep as they do! There are also a TON of facts about the clam-plex rituals that penguins go through to find a mate, but if I started listing them all, this would turn into a whole essay! I'll stop here with one more fact: A group of penguins in the water is called a raft! But I don't ink they'd like it very much if you tried to use them as one!

What on EARTH does this mean????? Is this a pun I am not understanding??? HELP!!!

I have so, SO many facts about these creatures! Let's get KRAKEN! The fact that octopuses have three hearts is more popular (two to circulate blood to the gills, and one to the rest of the body), but I find it BASS-SCINATING that they technically have nine brains! three-fifths of an octopus's neurons are located in their arms, having a brain for beach limb, which allows them to move each of them fin-dependently! You cod literally say that each of an octopus's arm has a mind of it's own! Now that's tenta-cool! Haha! Because of this, if you cut off one of an octopus's tentacles, it would be able to live as it did before when it was still attached! Only, it'd be unable to eat.. So eventually, it would die of a lack of nutrients. Speaking of tentacles, each sucker on the tentacle of an octopus has taste buds as well as touch reef-ceptors! Imagine being able to taste with your fingers... yuck! It's whale-known that octopuses can change color to blend in with their environment. The cells in their body called chromatophores allow them to change color and even their own texture! Octopuses are SUPER smart and have a lot of pearl-sonality! They're known to use tools, open containers, and even play with toys like children would! ALL species of octopus are venomous.. Boat, only the blue-ringed octopus has enough venom to be deadly to humans! An octopus's defense mechanism of shooting ink isn't neces-sea-rily to blind predators, but to paralyze its senses of smell and taste! Most sea creatures aren't very reliant on their eyesight any-waves, since not very much light beach-es the depths where octopodes live! (Also, octopodes is another correct plural of octopus! And octopi is NOT valid. Thanks, Brightney!) Deep in the ocean where octopuses live, having iron-based hemoglobin (the protein in blood cells that transports oxygen!) is not very ef-fish-cient. While iron-based hemoglobin makes blood red, copper, which is the base for octopus hemoglobin, makes it BLUE! Octopodes have blue blood! And FIN-ally, because octopuses have no bones, they're able to fit through ANY space larger than their beak, which is the only hard part of their body! There are more facts I could tell about octopodes... Boat, this is getting a little long... Guess I got a little ahead of my-shell-f! Hope this ten-tickles your fancy! Haha!

They're called sea pigs because of their pinkish coloration, and their diet of fin-gesting mud for particles of decaying algae and other fish carcasses! Their tube-like feet serve at stilts to kelp them not sink in the mud. They live in the DEEPEST parts of the ocean at depths of four to sixteen THOUSAND feet below sea level! They travel together in large "herds," sometimes in the hundreds! They're poisonous to predators because of a toxin they have in their skin called holothurin, which is the chemical most commonly attributed to holothurians, a type of sea cucumber! These little guys are a subspecies of holothurians!

I'm reading a book about how to take care of a goldfish! It's got some pretty tenta-cool facts in here... Did you know that goldfish can breathe in the air AND the water? And the world record for the longest-living goldfish is 43 years!! Ink-credible, right? They also have a memory span of up to three months, and are actually rather fin-telligent! Ever heard the term "memory of a goldfish?" Con-sea-der it DEBUNKED!