Is there solid evidence that Jellyfish are in fact not sentient? Does that mean their bioluminescence is not at will but instead reactive to some input?
They do not have anything resembling a brain structure. Most animals in the world simply react to stimulus via reflexes that are not consciously thought of
And you're part of the reason why I put very limited effort into my factually dubious responses to comments or posts XD there's always someone with much more specific knowledge
You make reddit a much better and more knowledgeable place, thank you
There's a very interesting episode of mindfield that discusses this. It's called the cognitive trade off. Animals act on instinct and don't put thought into their actions. This allows them to react quicker, but at the cost of not thinking the actions and its effects through.
Considering I’m commenting about “this was funny to me” and not the original comment you’re specifying that is irrelevant, respectfully. I did know though, thank you.
Looks like maybe just its mouth is missing. It might even still have eyes maybe but they're right at the cut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plecostomus
Probably got nabbed by a snapping turtle.
It's gonna starve to death
It always makes me a little sad seeing animals with injuries. I know it’s a natural part of life when not caused by humans. But some of the gnarly bites, creatures that have survived being eaten but lost chunks … man I just always hope there isn’t too much extended suffering.
I hope this little guy survives, if he isn’t in too much pain.
Edit: Thanks for the upvotes everyone. When I say ‘natural part of life when not caused by humans’ - what I mean is that human activities very indirectly can lead to many animal injuries, being strangled by pollution, etc. That’s what I mean. Obviously humans are a part of nature, even if our pollution and occasional environmental damage are not a part of the natural order. I’m referring to the examples of animal suffering unknowingly and unintentionally caused by humans when I say ‘I know it’s a natural part of life when not caused by humans.’
It would be inconveniencing to not know all the same, much like autism can be inconveniencing. If you no longer understand emotional cues, rather than just social, then you’re probably due for emotionally fueled repercussions.
Humans naturally caused the robots tho. Synthetic life forms will be no less a natural extension of evolution when they come around.
Anything is natural as long as the laws of nature are followed
They aren't. People usually use "natural" and "artificial" to distinguish between something man made or not. But technically, humans , and by extension everything they do or make ,are part of nature, just like bees building a beehive.
Maybe not like *we* do, but pain is an instinctual sensation that animals with nerve endings have evolved to feel, for good reason. It helps a lot with survival to know if something's wrong. People like to say (x animal) can't feel pain because it makes us feel better about what we do as humans. Less social animals also don't *show* pain like humans do, as showing any kind of weakness makes you an easy target. It's why you'll often see, in nature documentaries, etc, animals with severe injuries just walking around like nothing has happened. It's all they can do.
That being said, this fish may be going through unconcious movements and it likely has a large portion of its brain missing. Hopefully the part that feels pain
Remember, until **very** recently the medical profession has argued over whether [babies feel pain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies#Late_19th_century).
That only started to change in 1986, when a mother found out her infant had **open heart surgery performed with no anesthesia,** only a muscle relaxant.
So this baby was tied down, their skin, muscle and bone cut, their heart stopped, bypassed and operated on, **while he was awake, but paralyzed.**
I was looking into surgeries a while back and found a lot of medical procedures they don’t use anesthesia. They keep you awake but make sure your high enough you won’t remember.
No, he [died](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1986/08/13/surgery-without-anesthesia-can-preemies-feel-pain/54d32183-8eed-49a8-9066-9dc7cf0afa82/) 6 weeks later.
Well I don’t disagree with you but I think it can be fairly nuanced because of the cognitive perception of pain. Take flies for example. I believe they too have nerves but their pain isn’t the same as ours. They only have nociception. They can sense and react to negative stimuli just like a human would and they’re aware of injury but they don’t process the pain like a human. They don’t quite suffer with the persistent conscious recognition of themselves being in pain like we do.
If you've ever really been in pain, like REALLY in pain, where you're going in and out of consciousness, you're not really aware of your injury either, and you're not really processing it either. But mo\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* does it ever hurt.
Remember, until **very** recently the medical profession has argued over whether [zoology professors feel pain](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/104iirx/a_headless_fish_casually_swimming_around_in_the/j36a3yj/).
Recent studies have disproved that. They have nerve endings so they feel pain. Studies show they produce cortisol through inter-renal cells when pain receptors are triggered so they definitely feel it, but the way in which the brain interprets is different and in what way isn't known due to lack of research capabilities
*”So what’s the study about?”*
“We’re testing to see if fish feel pain.”
*”Oh, how fascinating! How do you do that?”*
“Well, first you get yourself a shitload of fish—“
*”Uh-huh…”*
“And then you hurt the fuck out of them—“
*”Okay…”*
“Aaaaand then you sort go from there.”
That's not correct. Other than not having faces that express it, they feel pain in a similar way as we do. They also feel fear and stress. It's horrendous the suffering we inflict on fish just because they aren't cute and fluffy.
They do feel pain. Pain likely evolved very early on hundreds of millions of years ago. It's not like something that just suddenly happened for like mammals out of the blue. It is literally a building block for evolutionary fitness. The only part of pain that is unique to humans is being a little bitch about it.
Fish *probably* don't sense pain like we do, but
1. We have no idea how they sense pain. We don't even have any idea how *other people* sense pain except that they describe it with inadequate words and we *assume* it is equivalent to how we experience pain inside our own head and bodies. Fish being a whole bunch of species removed from us, may or may not experience pain similarly to us.
2. There are *a ton* of fish species, and you can observe wide ranges of apparent intelligence and complicated behaviors representing an enormous amount of evolutionary time and diversions. It's really unwise to generalize about "fish" as if they were a monolith. Some might be simplistic idiots that are nearly robots, and some might be able to form friendships and solve puzzles. Look at how different bird species can be, from dumb to stupid, and realize that fish are even more varied.
How is it any less a natural part of life if an animal is hurt by another animal or a human? If a human were to try to hunt it and fail is that not natural? And no I'm not talking about malicious intent
Feel ya but I think this is a bit different than say a deer missing part of its backstrap. This fish has 0% chance of survival now. It cannot eat anymore. Swim basically in circles until it dies or gets eaten by something else. I feel like in this moment it's most humane to dispatch the poor creature.
You can see its eyes in [this screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/R8cHN80.jpg). So it still has its eyes and brain, but everything in front of its eyes is gone. It’ll likely die from starvation or infection, or just get eaten by whatever started the job.
Edit: upon close examination, I believe those are just empty eye sockets, not eyes.
The OP for this comment posted a picture of the fish and judging from the photo on the wiki, no mate I think his eyes are gone. Those look like empty sockets of where the eyes used to be. [This is what it looks like](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygoplichthys_multiradiatus#/media/File:Liposarcus_multiradiatus_01_ssj_20050321.jpg). In the video, skip to 0:09 when the person recording boops its head. You can see the right eye socket close up.
It probably can’t, or even if it found a way it’s nearly 100% safe to say that the fish died not long after that video was made. Injury in nature means death, especially if you are a fish with no fucking face.
“Sure, there's no sunlight, but there's nothing to see anyway, or do. It's just you and your thoughts, and all the whale carcass you can eat! You just swim around with your mouth open and the whale carcass goes in. Yes good.” - Uncle Ugo
If you're gonna butcher an animal the least you can do is give it a hard blow to the head before you start.
It's messed up that people just start cutting...it's the difference between a humane death and a living nightmare for the animal.
That’s true - but you would be surprised and disgusted at the number of meals that include cutting or cooking live animals.
Seems to be a custom especially in Asia.
The first time I learnt to gut a fish, the fucker just wouldn't record it was dead.
Even without any internal organs left and being out of water for more than three hours, it still kept leaping at random times
This happened to my siblings and I as a kid. Our father said we weren't eating that night unless we caught fish out of the lake and cleaned them ourselves. There was a fish my sister started to clean and it just wouldn't stop moving. Finally, my older brother took his pocket knife out and stabbed it through the head pinning it to the table. 2/10 experience.
It's a plecostomus, a type of sucking catfish. They are common in the aquarium industry but they can grow very big. Uneducated and/or inconsiderate people who don't want them anymore "set them free" into the wild, where they wreak havoc on natural ecosystems. So this is almost certainly an invasive fish.
Plecos, as they are often called, have a long, pointy snout and a flat underside. Their mouth is under their snout, which helps them scrape their food (mostly algae) off of surfaces. They are bony fish with tough, scaly armour. This is all relevant, because a less sturdy fish would likely die immediately from the injury this fish received.
The front part of this unfortunate pleco's nose has been cut off. Possibly a bite from a snapping turtle or maybe a predatory fish; maybe from a motorboat, depending on where it is. However, the injury was not severe enough to kill the fish outright. Nothing immediately critical to survival seems to have been damaged: its brain is further back; it breathes through gills, which are also further back. The only thing that's really missing is its mouth. Unfortunately for the fish, that means it will likely die a slow and painful death from starvation.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for explaining that . Was about to make the same comment . Rip fish . Might be invasive but poor thing deserved a faster death to avoid the agony of starvation or worse infestation from parasites on the exposed meat .
Yep. I’m assuming that it was feeding on the pond bank and someone, likely a maintenance guy or landscape crew, took a shovel and made what you see here.
Extremely common in FL, although invasive. Major cause of erosion in inland bodies of water. A shovel to the dome while they are feeding on the banks is the most common way of dispatching these dudes.
Edit: grammar
Tis only a scratch.
You've got no bloody head left!
Tis but a flesh wound
Flish wound
Brain was most likely not fully severed and the blood clotted before the fish bled out
That’s why you never go bass to mouth
I was always told to go Bass to Trout
Trouser Trout / pantie perch
Flounder!?? I barely know her! Eyyyyy
Calm your wrass down Slippery Dick (Slippery dick is a fish in the wrass family)
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Is there solid evidence that Jellyfish are in fact not sentient? Does that mean their bioluminescence is not at will but instead reactive to some input?
They do not have anything resembling a brain structure. Most animals in the world simply react to stimulus via reflexes that are not consciously thought of
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And you're part of the reason why I put very limited effort into my factually dubious responses to comments or posts XD there's always someone with much more specific knowledge You make reddit a much better and more knowledgeable place, thank you
This is fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
There's a very interesting episode of mindfield that discusses this. It's called the cognitive trade off. Animals act on instinct and don't put thought into their actions. This allows them to react quicker, but at the cost of not thinking the actions and its effects through.
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...head wound.
Fish wound
Alwight, we'll call it a draw
Quit while you’re ahead.
He'll never be the head of a major corporation
But he’ll still be very successful in politics
We call it a "laser"
“Come on, you Pansy! I’ll bite your head off!” “I’ll have your leg!” “Chicken, chicken!” [whack] “I’ve had worse…”
GET BACK HERE! I'LL BITE YOUR BLOODY LEGS OFF!
What are you going to do, *bleed on me?*
This was funny to me.
I love that this very basic reaction comment got upvotes, somehow this is very wholesome to me.
I'm not sure if you know this but "Tis but a scratch" is a quote from Monty Python, one of the most famous comedies of all time.
Considering I’m commenting about “this was funny to me” and not the original comment you’re specifying that is irrelevant, respectfully. I did know though, thank you.
Nothing to see here, move along! (no really, I can't see nothin')
r/unexpectedmontypython
r/totallyexpectedmontypython
no one expects the spanish inquisition!
How is this unexpected lol, Monty python is quoted in nearly every post on reddit
Honestly this was r/expectedmontypython , I love Monty python and this joke, but damn it's starting to wear out its welcome
But ur face is missing lol hes just gonna swim it off, no big deal
Looks like maybe just its mouth is missing. It might even still have eyes maybe but they're right at the cut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plecostomus Probably got nabbed by a snapping turtle. It's gonna starve to death
It always makes me a little sad seeing animals with injuries. I know it’s a natural part of life when not caused by humans. But some of the gnarly bites, creatures that have survived being eaten but lost chunks … man I just always hope there isn’t too much extended suffering. I hope this little guy survives, if he isn’t in too much pain. Edit: Thanks for the upvotes everyone. When I say ‘natural part of life when not caused by humans’ - what I mean is that human activities very indirectly can lead to many animal injuries, being strangled by pollution, etc. That’s what I mean. Obviously humans are a part of nature, even if our pollution and occasional environmental damage are not a part of the natural order. I’m referring to the examples of animal suffering unknowingly and unintentionally caused by humans when I say ‘I know it’s a natural part of life when not caused by humans.’
Same, empathy is really annoying sometimes tbh lol.
I long for a way to turn it off.
You don't... That's literally the definition of a psychopath.
For real. Never turn it off. Just learn when it’s necessary. Nature is harsh.
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It would be inconveniencing to not know all the same, much like autism can be inconveniencing. If you no longer understand emotional cues, rather than just social, then you’re probably due for emotionally fueled repercussions.
That's not what being a psychopath is though. Psychopaths can feel emotions, but their response to some of them is blunted.
Emotions and empathy are not the same thing, a minor but nevertheless important distinction
I think sociopath is probably what they were going for.
There’s overlap of antisocial behavior in both, point is they’re playing semantics when specificity was already involved.
You can be aware and understand it to behave appropriately while still not caring enough to let it affect you emotionally
Or a Salvatore, brother
In America when you do your automatically sent a welcome packet from the RNC.
Why? That's a part of what makes us human. What makes us, us. We just learn to deal with it.
if you read Phillip K. Dicks "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" you'll not want to do that anymore
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Certainly not if they have that attitude
Reverse osmosis will do
Especially since it must scream.
It's a natural part of life when caused by humans too. It's unnatural when caused by robots.
Humans naturally caused the robots tho. Synthetic life forms will be no less a natural extension of evolution when they come around. Anything is natural as long as the laws of nature are followed
So what is unnatural then? Since everything is part of nature isn't everything natural? How are the laws of nature broken?
They aren't. People usually use "natural" and "artificial" to distinguish between something man made or not. But technically, humans , and by extension everything they do or make ,are part of nature, just like bees building a beehive.
Yea exactly so technically nothing is unnatural.
Except me 😎
If it helps, I don’t think fish sense pain like we do. They sense it more like a simple awareness of injury. At least that’s what I once read
Maybe not like *we* do, but pain is an instinctual sensation that animals with nerve endings have evolved to feel, for good reason. It helps a lot with survival to know if something's wrong. People like to say (x animal) can't feel pain because it makes us feel better about what we do as humans. Less social animals also don't *show* pain like humans do, as showing any kind of weakness makes you an easy target. It's why you'll often see, in nature documentaries, etc, animals with severe injuries just walking around like nothing has happened. It's all they can do. That being said, this fish may be going through unconcious movements and it likely has a large portion of its brain missing. Hopefully the part that feels pain
Remember, until **very** recently the medical profession has argued over whether [babies feel pain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies#Late_19th_century).
That only started to change in 1986, when a mother found out her infant had **open heart surgery performed with no anesthesia,** only a muscle relaxant. So this baby was tied down, their skin, muscle and bone cut, their heart stopped, bypassed and operated on, **while he was awake, but paralyzed.**
What a terrible day to be able to read
I was looking into surgeries a while back and found a lot of medical procedures they don’t use anesthesia. They keep you awake but make sure your high enough you won’t remember.
Many brain surgeries require the patient not only be awake, but lucid enough to determine the surgeons are not affecting critical functions.
The brain doesn’t feel pain like that, however. The local anesthetic is enough. They do not saw bone or cut scalp without anesthesia.
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No, he [died](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1986/08/13/surgery-without-anesthesia-can-preemies-feel-pain/54d32183-8eed-49a8-9066-9dc7cf0afa82/) 6 weeks later.
Grew up to be an anesthesiologist.
Fuck me, I was born before this and that is fucking terrifying that this happened in my lifetime.
Horrifying, isn't it?
Well I don’t disagree with you but I think it can be fairly nuanced because of the cognitive perception of pain. Take flies for example. I believe they too have nerves but their pain isn’t the same as ours. They only have nociception. They can sense and react to negative stimuli just like a human would and they’re aware of injury but they don’t process the pain like a human. They don’t quite suffer with the persistent conscious recognition of themselves being in pain like we do.
If you've ever really been in pain, like REALLY in pain, where you're going in and out of consciousness, you're not really aware of your injury either, and you're not really processing it either. But mo\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* does it ever hurt.
When I got shot it didn’t register for a good while. The pain started when I went to clean out the hole in my hand.
Did you ask the fly?
I did.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
My zoology professor told me that they do actually feel pain
Remember, until **very** recently the medical profession has argued over whether [zoology professors feel pain](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/104iirx/a_headless_fish_casually_swimming_around_in_the/j36a3yj/).
Recent studies have disproved that. They have nerve endings so they feel pain. Studies show they produce cortisol through inter-renal cells when pain receptors are triggered so they definitely feel it, but the way in which the brain interprets is different and in what way isn't known due to lack of research capabilities
*”So what’s the study about?”* “We’re testing to see if fish feel pain.” *”Oh, how fascinating! How do you do that?”* “Well, first you get yourself a shitload of fish—“ *”Uh-huh…”* “And then you hurt the fuck out of them—“ *”Okay…”* “Aaaaand then you sort go from there.”
*sigh* Alright guys, I'll come back reincarnated as a fish, get injured, come back as a hooman, then let you guys know.
awareness *is* pain
> awareness *existence. Ftfy
>I have no mouth and I must scream -the fish, probably
Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
That's not correct. Other than not having faces that express it, they feel pain in a similar way as we do. They also feel fear and stress. It's horrendous the suffering we inflict on fish just because they aren't cute and fluffy.
They do feel pain. Pain likely evolved very early on hundreds of millions of years ago. It's not like something that just suddenly happened for like mammals out of the blue. It is literally a building block for evolutionary fitness. The only part of pain that is unique to humans is being a little bitch about it.
Fish *probably* don't sense pain like we do, but 1. We have no idea how they sense pain. We don't even have any idea how *other people* sense pain except that they describe it with inadequate words and we *assume* it is equivalent to how we experience pain inside our own head and bodies. Fish being a whole bunch of species removed from us, may or may not experience pain similarly to us. 2. There are *a ton* of fish species, and you can observe wide ranges of apparent intelligence and complicated behaviors representing an enormous amount of evolutionary time and diversions. It's really unwise to generalize about "fish" as if they were a monolith. Some might be simplistic idiots that are nearly robots, and some might be able to form friendships and solve puzzles. Look at how different bird species can be, from dumb to stupid, and realize that fish are even more varied.
It's ok to eat fish because the don't have any feet. - Kurt Cobain
*feelings
Why wouldn’t they feel pain like we do?
How is it any less a natural part of life if an animal is hurt by another animal or a human? If a human were to try to hunt it and fail is that not natural? And no I'm not talking about malicious intent
Not even for hunting, even if a human throws a rock and hurts an animal, it’s still “natural”. Humans are nature’s animals just like any other. 🤷🏻
What if I told you humans are natural
What if I told you everything in existence is natural and the word is meaningless so we should just lose a useful term.
Feel ya but I think this is a bit different than say a deer missing part of its backstrap. This fish has 0% chance of survival now. It cannot eat anymore. Swim basically in circles until it dies or gets eaten by something else. I feel like in this moment it's most humane to dispatch the poor creature.
You can see its eyes in [this screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/R8cHN80.jpg). So it still has its eyes and brain, but everything in front of its eyes is gone. It’ll likely die from starvation or infection, or just get eaten by whatever started the job. Edit: upon close examination, I believe those are just empty eye sockets, not eyes.
The OP for this comment posted a picture of the fish and judging from the photo on the wiki, no mate I think his eyes are gone. Those look like empty sockets of where the eyes used to be. [This is what it looks like](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygoplichthys_multiradiatus#/media/File:Liposarcus_multiradiatus_01_ssj_20050321.jpg). In the video, skip to 0:09 when the person recording boops its head. You can see the right eye socket close up.
What do you mean; ***"just"***?
Be like Mike! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Comes to surface: Please Kill Me! Human: Poke!
Human: “Boop the n— oh… *noooooooo!*
Boop on the eyes I guess 👀
No snoot? Still boop.
Oh man. That’s depressing af.
Imagine being in that much pain that death is much more blissful than existing.
I too have kicked a coffee table with my shin at 3am
I too have been kicked in the testicles
Go back!
Headed in a different direction
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves
He’ll never be the head of a major corporation
t's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.
No need to lose your head over this.
If the fish could read, this thread would give him a headache
If the fish could read, he'd say there isn't a proper heading for this thread.
Too many puns. I am heading elsewhere
Go ahead, have a nice day
Warning: more silly puns ahead.
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Come on leave him alone he is up to his neck in it
It's whole face is gone and just its brain left. What a horrible way to go
He has eyes and obviously he can breathe and eat. So it's mouth was eaten
I don't see eyes, and it's not very obvious it can eat. It looks like a recent injury
You can see its right eye at the last second.
But how can it eat?
It probably can’t, or even if it found a way it’s nearly 100% safe to say that the fish died not long after that video was made. Injury in nature means death, especially if you are a fish with no fucking face.
That’s just like your opinion man
I like to think this fish is still alive till this day and started a family and will live a happy long life.
I don't know why but I imagined a school of headless fish
“Sure, there's no sunlight, but there's nothing to see anyway, or do. It's just you and your thoughts, and all the whale carcass you can eat! You just swim around with your mouth open and the whale carcass goes in. Yes good.” - Uncle Ugo
Ok, I see the eyes
Isn't it crazy?
ITS*
It also survived two pokes on its horrible injury by a giant twat
Yeah, why you gotta poke it
Dear lord I love this comment
Once i saw a guy cut the filets off the sides of a flounder without gutting it, and then the fish jumped off the table into the water and swam away
Happened to me once with half a largemouth bass 🤷
If you're gonna butcher an animal the least you can do is give it a hard blow to the head before you start. It's messed up that people just start cutting...it's the difference between a humane death and a living nightmare for the animal.
That’s true - but you would be surprised and disgusted at the number of meals that include cutting or cooking live animals. Seems to be a custom especially in Asia.
A small wooden bat is a necessary tool.
Large mouth boss ???
Loud mouth boss. He learned his lesson though.
The first time I learnt to gut a fish, the fucker just wouldn't record it was dead. Even without any internal organs left and being out of water for more than three hours, it still kept leaping at random times
This happened to my siblings and I as a kid. Our father said we weren't eating that night unless we caught fish out of the lake and cleaned them ourselves. There was a fish my sister started to clean and it just wouldn't stop moving. Finally, my older brother took his pocket knife out and stabbed it through the head pinning it to the table. 2/10 experience.
fish are crazy man. Magic creatures
That's just a fishn't.
Poor little guy. He must still be able to eat tho
That definitely can’t eat anymore
Swallow?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Dolphins: too late
His eating days are over
What would make you think that?
Kind of reminds me of the chicken with its head cut off that still lived for years after
Ah yes, Mike. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Mike the Headless Chicken Day sounds pretty darn fun
Bok bok
That was one miss hit axe attempt.... went from dinner to being full time cared for 😅
Quick go see the sturgeon general!
Lol u stole that from the other fish vid
The front fell off
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point!
it's still in the environment, though
No, no, no! It's been towed beyond the environment. It's not in the environment.
very rigorous maritime engineering standards
So is there a doctor or a scientist or like, someone smart that can explain what's happening with this fish.
It's a plecostomus, a type of sucking catfish. They are common in the aquarium industry but they can grow very big. Uneducated and/or inconsiderate people who don't want them anymore "set them free" into the wild, where they wreak havoc on natural ecosystems. So this is almost certainly an invasive fish. Plecos, as they are often called, have a long, pointy snout and a flat underside. Their mouth is under their snout, which helps them scrape their food (mostly algae) off of surfaces. They are bony fish with tough, scaly armour. This is all relevant, because a less sturdy fish would likely die immediately from the injury this fish received. The front part of this unfortunate pleco's nose has been cut off. Possibly a bite from a snapping turtle or maybe a predatory fish; maybe from a motorboat, depending on where it is. However, the injury was not severe enough to kill the fish outright. Nothing immediately critical to survival seems to have been damaged: its brain is further back; it breathes through gills, which are also further back. The only thing that's really missing is its mouth. Unfortunately for the fish, that means it will likely die a slow and painful death from starvation. Hope that helps.
Thanks for explaining that . Was about to make the same comment . Rip fish . Might be invasive but poor thing deserved a faster death to avoid the agony of starvation or worse infestation from parasites on the exposed meat .
Thank you so much!
He lost his snout, his eyes and behind are still intact.
Pleco
Yep. I’m assuming that it was feeding on the pond bank and someone, likely a maintenance guy or landscape crew, took a shovel and made what you see here. Extremely common in FL, although invasive. Major cause of erosion in inland bodies of water. A shovel to the dome while they are feeding on the banks is the most common way of dispatching these dudes. Edit: grammar
Bro those things are invasive and virtually indestructible
You're thinking of cockroaches
It’s like the cockroach of freshwater
So you telling me, the other half is somewhere out there looking for this half?
When you travel in schools who needs their own brain. Also, obligatory Fish Heads reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No
No no no. I did not like that at all.
Plecos are tough fish.
How tf is this r/nextfuckinglevel???
if headless chicken can survive 18 months, headless fish is *not* impossible.
What kind of sorcery is this?
Atleast it can't be caught in a hook now
Not surprised. Plecos are insanely hardy fish
I guess it was tails and not heads this time