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The War Between the Snipe and the Clam
The rare technique of cut-paper animation, by Hu Jinqing, who just recently died.
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 15, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Fish, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Stop-motion Animation, 1960s
Saved goldfish from drowning
“Not many people know that a fish can drown if it swallows too much water,” said Peter Hume, an inspector for the Royal Society.
Well, I certainly didn’t know that.
Waukesha Daily Freeman - Aug 13, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 13, 2019 -
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Category: Fish, 1960s
Skydiving fish
I never realized that wildlife managers stock lakes by dropping fish out of planes, but apparently they do, as shown by a short video recently posted online by Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources.And here's a piece about skydiving fish from CNN:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 26, 2018 -
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Category: Fish
Whale Choir
British senior citizens singing like whales. More info: BBC News
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 03, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Fish
Indoor Fishing
Not a new idea.Source of 1931 article.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 01, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, Fish
Old Cawlija
Info at source: "Old Cawlija, a five pound black bass, eats from hand and drinks Falstaff Beer from the can. The tank is placed in front of the Didda-Wa Restaurant."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 08, 2018 -
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Category: Regionalism, Restaurants, Fish, 1950s, Alcohol
Devolution Through Beer
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2017 -
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Category: Body Modifications, History, Advertising, Anthropology, Dinosaurs and Other Antediluvian Creatures, Fish, Alcohol
Fish Chokes Swimmer
One for the weird death file:
Great Falls Tribune - July 20, 1945
Fish Chokes Swimmer
GUATEMALA CITY, July 19 (U.P.) — A swim in a river near Esquipulas proved fatal today for Lazaro Perez. An expert swimmer, Perez did not drown. A fish swam into his mouth and he died before it could be removed.
GUATEMALA CITY, July 19 (U.P.) — A swim in a river near Esquipulas proved fatal today for Lazaro Perez. An expert swimmer, Perez did not drown. A fish swam into his mouth and he died before it could be removed.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 14, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Fish, 1940s
Hallucinogenic Fish
Sarpa salpa (above) is a type of sea bream found in the Mediterranean as well as in temperate areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It has one unusual quality. Eating it can cause hallucinations. For this reason, it's sometimes called the "dreamfish."
People have known about this for a long time. Apparently Sarpa salpa was occasionally eaten for recreational purposes during the Roman Empire.
A 2006 article in the journal Clinical Toxicology describes some medical case reports involving dreamfish consumption. For instance, in 1994 a 40-year-old man on vacation in the French Riviera ate some, and the next day the hallucinations began:
he began to experience blurring of vision and hallucinations involving aggressive and screaming animals. Agitation and disorientation led him to seek medical assistance (he was not able to drive anymore as he was seeing giant arthropods around his car). Physical examination upon arrival at the hospital emergency room demonstrated no notable abnormalities: no fever, no sign of focalization or sensory-motor deficit, and normal hemodynamic status except for sinusal tachycardia linked directly to the mental disturbances. During hospitalization, the patient recovered rapidly with complete resolution of symptoms within 36 h post ingestion. He was unable to recall the hallucinatory period.
Similarly, in 2002 a 90-year-old retiree ate some sea bream, again in the French Riviera, and experienced hallucinations involving "human screams and bird squealing."
A case described on Wikipedia seems to have been far more pleasurable. In 1960, National Geographic photographer Joe Roberts purposefully ate some broiled dreamfish: "he experienced intense hallucinations with a science-fiction theme that included futuristic vehicles, images of space exploration, and monuments marking humanity's first trips into space."
The authors of the Clinical Toxicology article note that cases of hallucinogenic fish poisoning (ichthyoallyeinotoxism) are often confused with ciguatera poisoning — the latter caused by fish flesh contaminated by "various toxins produced by the benthic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus."
Ciguatera can also cause hallucinations. However, it may also kill you, whereas you should recover from the dreamfish hallucinations within 36 hours.
(Thanks to hotsauce269 for letting us know about the dreamfish.)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 02, 2016 -
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Category: Drugs, Fish
Da-Dum… Da-Dum… Da-Dum
Researchers at UC San Diego (my grad school alma mater) have published research documenting that the "ominous background music that often accompanies shark footage" can cause people to view sharks in a negative light, whereas the same footage set to "uplifting background music" doesn't have this effect.
They note that their study is the first "to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background music accompanying shark footage affect viewers’ attitudes toward sharks."
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 17, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Fish, Documentaries
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