Sunfish have a brain to body ratio of 1:40,000, making them really stupid
Nobody really understands how their swimming works! They just kinda wiggle their way up and down
They don't have a swim bladder, meaning descent and ascent are manually controlled by their wiggling
Sunfish hatch with proper tails, but those tails morph into the ugly clavus as the sunfish matures
Only 100 out of 1,000,000,000 sunfish born yearly survive to adulthood. Thats .000,000,01 percent!
Sunfish lay 300,000,000 eggs at a time.
Sunfish are born smaller than popcorn kernels, but grow to be 10 feet in diameter
Sunfish lay sideways on the surface of the water- sunbathing, hence their name- to warm up (they do some cold ocean diving for food, eating jellyfish and other squishy things that congregate lower down) and allow birds to pick off yuckies.
Sunfish were once upon a time accepted as tax payment to Shogunwa in Japan in the 1600s
Sunfish are so non nutritious, orcas bite into them then decide they make a terrible snack, leaving the sunfish swimming around missing chunks
Sunfish are the heaviest bony fish
Sunfish are covered in external parasites
Sunfish are perpetually derpy, making the O.0 face
Sunfish are my comfort creature
Sunfish deserve your love
Sunfish are actually called sunfish because the sun shines out of their derpy faces
I am uh, not awake enough to read all this- it's like 12:44 am for me- will actually read this and edit it when I wake up lol
Edit: awwwwww this is so cute what- it goes from actual facts to just being kind wth I'm going to cry
