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Opinions on this sturgeon
I think he's scary as fuck
I can understand how seeing such a large fish incites fear in you; it is a base survival instinct that “bigger than me” = “going to eat me” in our minds. But I am glad to tell you that this gentle giant is a white sturgeon and he means you no harm. In fact he has no means with which to harm you.
About the only way that people are killed by sturgeon fish is being knocked from their boats by a surfacing sturgeon and drowning or being pulled from their boats by a sturgeon on a fishing hook and drowning. Both deaths are preventable simply by wearing a life jacket (and learning to let go of a fishing rod).
Sturgeon also have
protrusible mouths ˎˊ˗
lacking in teeth; thus, they can only eat what they can fit into their mouths. The white sturgeon is a member of the Acipenser genus, by the way, which means that their mouths are on the undersides of their bodies (ventral). For this sweetheart to eat you, you would have to be less than a foot tall and laying directly under him.
And you know, he doesn’t want to eat you anyways. He is very happy eating insect larvae, worms, crustaceans, and small fish. He is actually very nice and he wants to be your friend. He will have no problem respecting your personal space and will happily enjoy your long-distance friendship from the bottom of the Fraser River.
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Holiday Darter (Etheostoma brevirostrum), family Percidae, order Perciformes, found in the Conasauga River and the upper Coosa River systems of the Mid-Southern U.S.
photograph by Ryan Hagerty | USFWS
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i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night
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You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over 2 miles away
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Common seal (Phoca vitulina)
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thank you for request! probably will make new pet for my tamagotchi game out of this art 🤔
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Common seal (Phoca vitulina)
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thank you for request! probably will make new pet for my tamagotchi game out of this art 🤔
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Common seal (Phoca vitulina)
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thank you for request! probably will make new pet for my tamagotchi game out of this art 🤔
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Daily fish fact #766
Sturgeon poacher!
It is so named for its resemblance to sturgeons. Like sturgeons, this fish is also a bottom feeder and has bony plates covering its body, though these are common traits among poachers (family Agonidae) in general (which are not related to sturgeons).
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*salmon arguing on the internet voice* good argument. unfortunately for you i have already depicted you as the virgin ocean stage salmon and me as the chad spawning salmon
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x / Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede, Richard Siken
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guys can you BELIEVE my professors rejected this illustration of litle sharks for my college project i am devastated
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You’ve got nudibranchs that are colorful crowd pleasers, and then you’ve got Aeolidia papillosa, the common grey sea slug
It is a Living Mop or perhaps Shag Carpeting
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