Today's picture is that of a grey whale! Grey whales are a part of the order of Baleen whales whoch have TWO blowholes for twice the fun. Their purpose is not to expel water, but to breathe, as whales, being mammals, breathe air and not through water. They're similar to nostrils.

They can also be up to 50 feet long and weigh 45 tonnes. Very big cuties. But this also makes them quite scary, and why they were nicknamed the devil fish, as they fought back when hunted, with special ferocity being show by those protecting their young. Unfortunately, not vicious enough because they're now extinct in the Mediterranean and north atlantic.

Like other species of whales, they're very smart and curious. They like to get close to humans and even let the humans touch them.

Grey whales love to scoop up and eat shellfish, so they hunt around the coast, letting these human and whale interactions occur. They also travel up to 19000km in a year!

Yay whales BOO WHALING

Many people know of the Portuguese man o' war. But did you know that it is not a jellyfish? Its not even one single animal (debatable)! Its a siphonophore and it is a colony of tiny specialized zooids that form the whole thing. Theres even one siphonophore species that can grow longer than a blue whale.

Man o' wars reproduce both sexuall and asexually. Not at different times, but to form one whole man o' war. They spread eggs and sperm in the water and when they meet one larvae will be birthed and from that larvae, it will bud asexually to create more zooids to complete itself.

Also they can be found in groups as large as 1,000! Sounds scary.

Yay, funny little slender boi time. The electric eel is actually more closely related to catfish than eels. There are even electric catfish. Electric eels can also output 800v. Does anybody else eant to try licking one like a battery? It has three special organs for creating these electric charges that take up 80% of its body.

They are also obligate air breathers! They must surface to breathe roughly every 10 minutes. They mainly live in poorly oxygenated waters, so this makes sense.

Thats all for these cuties see you with another fish fact soon~

This little iridescent worm boi is believed to be named after the case where Mrs. Bobbitt chopped off her husbands penis. The reasoning for this is that the bobbit worm is an ambush predator with very sharp pincers that have the ability to cut a fish in half if they get too close. Usually found in coral reefs in the Atlantic. They can even grow up to 3meters long. It is not stroctly a carnivor though, as it will eat algae and decomposing matter that floats into its trap.

Alt text: Frog that looks like cheese on a burger

Alt text: A twitter post with two people. First one says "People are flipping out over the revelation that avocado tastes exactly like "Clean Pen*s". The second person replies " Good try, you arent tricking me into trying avocado ".

Spit directly into my mouth and you get another michelin star

Cephalopod 2: electric boogaloo. By great demand I bring another cephalopod. This time, octopus! One of my favorite creatures, period. These little ones are incredibly intelligent; I actually stopped eating them because of this, even though takoyaki is delicious. Theres a famous octopus, Otto, who has been known to shoot water at lights to turn them off, juggle hermit crabs, and rearrange his tank to his liking.

I firmly believe theyre only held back by two things: one is being very solitary, with most species living in their own den their whole lives. However, they can be social and communicate with others by changing colors on their skin. There was even a documentary I watched where someone swam to the same octopus every day, and even though Im sure it was dramatized and cherry picked, there seemed to be real trust built between them. The other is their incredibly short life spans with most living only 1-1.5 years. Partly this is because when females give birth, they will neglect themselves, protecting the eggs until they hatch and perishing soon after.

Hello fish friends! Today is the vampire squid a real cutie! Named after its distinct color and appearance, it is the only living cephalopod that is a scavenger. It also has the largest eyes proportional to its body in the animal kingdom. It lives 2-3000feet deep so unfortunately seeing these beauties in person isnt easy. They also cant change colors like other cephalopods or shoot out ink, because both would be pointless in the darkness of that depth. Instead, when threatened, they shoot out a bioluminescent mucus. As cool as this is, I dont want to be sneezed on by a squid.

Manta ray! Rays are majestic, and manta rays are one of the most well known. But did you know that they have a mutalistic relationship with remora? Those fish you see hanging onto it in the pic are them. Remora clean the manta ray in exchange for protection, transport (they have a sucking disk at the top of their heads to attach, and this can leave scars!) and they get to feed on the scraps the mnta ray leaves behind.

Would you accept a permanent spa day at this cost?

And by yuri, i mean self inserting fanfic yuri