The Insane Biology of: The Sunfish

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Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (kpatart.com/illustrations)
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Sound: Graham Haerther (haerther.net)
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Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
References:
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[2]onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
[3] www.necropsymanual.net/en/tel...
[4] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
[5] www.researchgate.net/publicat...
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[7] oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/...
[8] www.sciencedirect.com/science...
[9] www.taylorfrancis.com/chapter...
[10] www.oceansunfish.org/Rev%20Fi...

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@sojiro288 11 ай бұрын

Lol she spent the first 2 min absolutely destroying this fish before explaining the insanity behind its biology

@alp6502 11 ай бұрын

That's usually how it goes for this poor fish lol😅

@hanselguzman7089 11 ай бұрын

Poor animal

@mrjoe332 11 ай бұрын

The fact that she was still using her professional tone makes it even more hilarious

@bfitz5610 11 ай бұрын

If that fish could read it would be very upset

@curioushoodie 11 ай бұрын

"how else could it get so stupidly big? Even it seems surprise at it's continuous existence" "maybe it is somehow breaking the rules of nature, rules which are supposed to select for animals that actually function." 😂😂😂

@tsundear1731 11 ай бұрын

“How does such an awkward, slow moving thing become so massive?” I ask myself the same question every day

@ISS600 11 ай бұрын

The idea of deep-sea gigantism, I think.

@Jan_Kitalon 11 ай бұрын

lmao

@tracyhardyjohnson1315 10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@lesliedefilippis2150 10 ай бұрын

😂 Me too!!!! 😅🤣😂

@Me-zo8yc 10 ай бұрын

😂

@alychampion6356 4 ай бұрын

Man those first 2 minutes were PERSONAL

@karencollins2294 2 ай бұрын

🤣

@Romulan2469 2 ай бұрын

She's another Karen. All forgiven.

@refosco1993 Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@timjacob991 Ай бұрын

lol 😂

@utmostsubmarine2914 18 күн бұрын

🤣

@Tiberiusnerius 8 ай бұрын

You lured me in by roasting the ever loving shit out of the sunfish at the beginning, but by the end of the video they became one of my favorite fish. I'm absolutely fascinated by developmental biology, and the idea that the largest extant bony fish starts its life as a tiny spiky ball smaller than a fingernail is so incredible.

@TheAnnoyingBoss 4 ай бұрын

The guy that thought it was a baby whale is the kind of moment that reminds me of the double rainbow all the way across the sky

@WarFoxThunder 3 ай бұрын

IKR LOL

@russBwright 3 ай бұрын

"lured" you in.. I see what you did there ;)

@IronForgedUnderPressure 3 ай бұрын

Yeah. I like roasted sunfish as well. 😋

@cassanateli 3 ай бұрын

Never mistake curiosity for fascination

@nanocodethespectator2646 9 ай бұрын

"Stupid-looking deformed body" Bro did not have to go down that hard on the poor thing 😭

@aubreywhaley7729 3 ай бұрын

So Bro is Unisexed now, depicts male and female, lol. Bro back in my time meant Black Men

@HD-hy9xy 3 ай бұрын

@@aubreywhaley7729 Great opinion, however, Bruthaman

@Mr.Wilsin 3 ай бұрын

@aubreywhaley7729 Maybe to u it did but Bro always meant either brother or good friend it NEVER meant a Black Man but Brotha or a Brothaman did mean Black Men back then!

@aubreywhaley7729 3 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Wilsin this is what I meant , still so when did women become bros and brotha as a norm is what I'm asking?

@HD-hy9xy 3 ай бұрын

@@aubreywhaley7729 i'd say when black people were recognized as people, probably

@b1gturtle 11 ай бұрын

Bro he’s just a fish stop bullying him 😂

@StefanReich 11 ай бұрын

Fish mobbing is a real problem

@co0ki3M0NstAr 10 ай бұрын

Oml not his fault his spine folded in 😂

@leandersearle5094 10 ай бұрын

Stop! Stop! He's already [Fish]!

@MAGGOT_VOMIT 10 ай бұрын

When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣

@donbrashsux 10 ай бұрын

@@MAGGOT_VOMITonly thing it’s good for such a stupid face

@probablynotleo4340 3 ай бұрын

I like how the Mola Mola looks like the most "No thoughts, head empty" creature. But everything it does in life is in fact weird but very big brain.

@cynthiakila1161 Ай бұрын

Story my life “ people do quick to jump to conclusions without understanding the whole picture

@ArcadeRacer 5 ай бұрын

The first two minutes of this documentary are single-handedly the most brutal and crispy roast I have ever witnessed.

@deanevangelista6359 Ай бұрын

Mmmmmm, roasted sunfish!

@antonioramirez-fh1vl 11 ай бұрын

I hope she never stops narrating this channel hahaha she completely bodied this fish in the most professional way 😂

@kayleighgroenendal8473 11 ай бұрын

There goes all her followers who were Ocean Sunfish 😅

@gshaindrich 11 ай бұрын

there is nothing "professional" about the narration! quite the opposite...

@JubioHDX 10 ай бұрын

@@gshaindrich found the mola mola

@SM-wv2nu 10 ай бұрын

@@gshaindrichhave a sense of humour! :D she's just being silly

@MAGGOT_VOMIT 10 ай бұрын

When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣

@diegoferreiro9478 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact: mola fishes are known in Spanish as 'peces luna', so 'moonfishes' while in English are 'sunfishes'. I guess the Spanish name is related to the shape and color while the English name has more to do with their 'sunbathing' habit.

@maythesciencebewithyou 11 ай бұрын

The german name for it also means moon fish

@alveolate 11 ай бұрын

well, it's DEFINITELY mooning everyone with its curvy bottom!

@jaxsazerac4904 11 ай бұрын

It looks like the man in the moon or looks like it could have been made from the moon.

@periwinkleqiao 10 ай бұрын

in polish its called "just a head" BFBBZHFNF

@RangeGleasry 10 ай бұрын

@@periwinkleqiaobest😂😂😂😂

@aryah66 8 ай бұрын

"It's a BABY WHALE!" took me all the way out 😂😂😂

@jaxjaxattaxx 2 ай бұрын

Lmfaooooo it was the complete confidence in his observation 😂☠️

@Frau_Brotchen Ай бұрын

I thought they said "its a baby *wheel* " 😭

@viktorbihar5384 Ай бұрын

Can't even get mad about how wrong bro got the fish with that accent.

@day4162 Ай бұрын

@viktorbihar5384 lmaooooo that was my IMMEDIATE thought 😂😂😂

@Fishhunter2014 Ай бұрын

Bwahsten

@sunnyg1384 2 ай бұрын

A good example of how "survival of the fittest" means fittest for their environment, not necessarily just the most strong/fast/smart etc

@Monster-39 2 ай бұрын

Truth

@RomansChap8 Ай бұрын

Yah, evolution is the biggest lie lol

@majimbo8528 Ай бұрын

@@RomansChap8better than whatever the hell creationism is

@thenerdsword1407 Ай бұрын

@@RomansChap8How is it a lie

@user-ip2zh8gz7d 11 ай бұрын

"Being weird is the best way to exist on this earth" I like that quote.

@Stierenkloot 11 ай бұрын

It isn't working for me tho

@parob7285 10 ай бұрын

@@Stierenkloot change your habitat then until you find fit :D

@bigstepper4125 10 ай бұрын

@@Stierenklootevolve into something weirder then

@GewelReal 10 ай бұрын

Nah. Stay normal

@asterlyons8564 10 ай бұрын

@@Stierenklootyou just havent found your ecological niche

@goatsplitter 10 ай бұрын

I saw one of these bad boys years ago on a fishing trip in the pacific. I had no idea what I was seeing. it looked like a giant rubber mattress with fins. The captain pointed out that it was a sunfish. It was amazing, the thing was an absolute unit of a fish!

@kzzaa7694 10 ай бұрын

Winged rubber sea mattress is a better name

@FreshPresh8888 10 ай бұрын

A giant rubber mattress 💀💀💀 the comment section on this video is one of my favorite places now. Such unexpected belly laughs. 😂

@faustinreeder1075 10 ай бұрын

Lol

@KutsuuG 10 ай бұрын

Why am I imagining a water bed made out of a sunfish now?

@Guru_1092 10 ай бұрын

*A B S O L U T E* *U N I T*

@AidansGuide2DnD 7 ай бұрын

So in a way, they DO get energy from the sun by using it to heat themselves. I love this fish

@Thurston86 Ай бұрын

“Aggressively farting out the gas”. Too bad we don’t have any video footage of this heroic feat. 😂

@kitkat5765 11 ай бұрын

I love this dude, just a weird and fascinating species. Looks completely stupid yet clearly is doing something right. (And so many eggs, my god. Insane!) Love to see these oddballs doing something well.

@wolftalon9129 11 ай бұрын

most of the weirdest looking animals are the ones that are the most adapted for their environment and do better than everything else in its environment

@redplanet7163 10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised it hasn't been bullied into extinction by orcas or some other kind of smart ass marine creature. I mean, it's so punchable 😂

@maolcogi 10 ай бұрын

Such a goofy fish, but also really cool at the same time. I have a new favorite fish, because normal things are boring.

@kingofcrunk4237 10 ай бұрын

I love what the little ones look like - I did imagine they'd be weird looking, but nothing prepared me for the little spiky love balls.

@hotlanta35 10 ай бұрын

Yeah she seems like a superficial and totally judgmental

@dion2630 11 ай бұрын

Me: " There are plenty of fish in the sea" The fish:

@GridSeer 11 ай бұрын

Don't be meannnnn

@artisticyeti22 11 ай бұрын

@@GridSeer😂

@izzybelle 11 ай бұрын

@LizziesLukas 11 ай бұрын

AH... Plenty of Fish, that weird dating site once so popular

@user-yy1rs3df3q 11 ай бұрын

👁👄👁

@MinstrelSentFromAnotherLand 5 ай бұрын

I’ve seen one at a marine rehab facility. About 30inches fin to fin and the little dude was CRUISING around pretty quick

@Rambl3On Ай бұрын

Wow, I love marine biology and learning about the oceans. But I'll be honest and say I did always think the Mola Mola was some weird prehistoric leftover. But the fact that they are so unique and actually one of the most recent evolutionary path in the fish family is fascinating! You've really changed my mind about this fish.

@wxlurker 10 ай бұрын

“I dare you to eat all these eggs” really cracked me up. I love the humour in the narration and it reminds me how many wondrous adaptations there really are.

@KooriPlays 11 ай бұрын

“To find out, researchers invented the Mola cam. They didn’t call it that, but I’m calling it that.” I love this so much.

@gabrielclark1425 10 ай бұрын

I bet that Mola is _really_ enjoying that flashlight during it's deep dives.

@joshriley2936 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of when Zefrank was talking about jewelers that use cuttlebones to mold jewelry and says "These people are called cuttleboners. By me. And now by you." Gets me every time.

@mnxs 10 ай бұрын

Ikr? This channel has always been good, but it's gotten _really_ good lately; scripts with great lines like that, graphics, etc. Love to see it.

@Jar_Jar_Twinks 2 ай бұрын

@10dhs-tc9pm you liked your own comment and have an ai generated pfp babe, maybe don't insult people 💔

@xyz7572 Ай бұрын

Sun fish truly are my favourite ocean animal. They might not win any beauty contests, but they’ve won the contest to my heart lol

@edkonstantellis9094 8 ай бұрын

The Sunfish is the ocean's answer to a Sloth

@Llamaguru 11 ай бұрын

I had the pleasure of seeing one of these funny fish in the wild!! Two years ago I was surfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on a sunny day around spring and I had paddled out just past the break. I look over in the water and spot a weird white object, but upon inspection it was one of these! It was roughly 1 meter long and was on its side at the surface 2 feet away from me. We hung out for about 5 minutes and it didn’t mind me at all. The whole time it was on its side gently flapping its wings and splashing the surface, but not actually moving anywhere. I tried to stay with it to marvel at it for as long as possible, but eventually a wave came and when I emerged from the duck dive it was gone😢. 10/10 would hang with a Mola mola again!

@charlessarver1637 11 ай бұрын

Awsome

@JD-cg8it 11 ай бұрын

Damn that's dope

@Unknown17 11 ай бұрын

It was carefully studying you and your board, wondering if you had any adaptations it could incorporate into its next weird biology update.

@treeaboo 11 ай бұрын

@@Unknown17 "Those hand things look useful, I'll add those in the next patch"

@ronaldpokatiloff5704 11 ай бұрын

A computer made all life. DNA code comes from outside the universe.

@doggo7078 11 ай бұрын

The sunfish is like one of those school projects that you do the night before and somehow it clutches a 5

@edwardbrock3807 10 ай бұрын

The stingray was my last min savior. Jus pull open a wire coathanger, wrap in paper and voila!

@SCWood 6 ай бұрын

Mola Mola genuinely seems like an unfinished prototype of a normal fish.

@GabrielGarcia-pq9wj Ай бұрын

Liked how she said even hes surprised of his own existence. While shows a shot of it floating around with a blank stare

@velvety2528 10 ай бұрын

I remember being on a cruise ship as a kid when I looked down as the ship passed by a massive sunfish that was basking at the surface. I felt so lucky that I saw it, I will never forget it!

@flufffycow 10 ай бұрын

Was your first thought to break down the fish and leave it depressed.

@jimmytran5971 10 ай бұрын

🧢

@Idkmanihatethis 10 ай бұрын

Were you traumatized?

@velvety2528 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmytran5971 no cap bro

@TheCrescentLune 10 ай бұрын

That's amazing! To see one in person. Hope you were able to get photos!

@brunol-p_g8800 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather saw one in the 1960s with his friends. The 3 of them were cruising on their sailboat, close to Madeira they were becalmed and my grand father went for a swim, after only a few minutes his two friends on the sailboat started screaming that there was a huge, giant, dorsal fin poking out of the water, my grand father had the fear of his life: he started swimming like crazy for the boat to climb back aboard. The Med is known for white sharks, particularly back then and for huge white sharks that would often get out of the med and swim close to Madeira where they’d attack blue fin Tuna going for the strait of Gibraltar and the Med from the Atlantic. After getting on board a moment passed, and then the fin got closer, that’s when they saw it was a huge mola mola, and stopped being so tense. My grandfather told me it was the one and only time he so suddenly felt for his life.

@MeanBeanComedy 10 ай бұрын

Nothing like seeing a shark when you're in the water to make you feel alive! 😁👍🏻

@pluspiping 10 ай бұрын

An apex predator to be sure, but just not the one they were expecting

@keeratijirananutwinyu8339 10 ай бұрын

felt for his life by sun fish

@The_Jiant 10 ай бұрын

Bet he was relieved when he saw that derpy looking mother fucker instead of a shark.

@yousifmq 10 ай бұрын

This is so weird 😂

@KEENANALLENASMRGLASS 8 ай бұрын

Those first few minutes was just disrespectful and I will not tolerate sunfish disrespect 😤

@deckardcanine 3 ай бұрын

"Sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this earth." Amen!

@Peatingtune 10 ай бұрын

"How does such an awkward, slow-moving thing become so massive?" I feel personally attacked.

@wheelchair_charlie 11 ай бұрын

"Its a sea turtle!? ..No its a baby whale!!" 😂 Oh man that was hilarious! For me this sea unicorn is one of life's mot amazing creatures!😉Great video thx!

@cannibal.warrior 11 ай бұрын

Yo I'm dumb but I thought he was saying "it's a baby wheel!" The wonder and delight in his voice while speaking about a baby wheel being born was hilarious to me 😂

@Joe_Bidens_hair_fetish 11 ай бұрын

In their defense, we don't really see them much up here (I know exactly where they're from, because that's how we all talk in our area lol). I'm assuming our water might be a little too cold for most of them

@kiki29073 11 ай бұрын

@@cannibal.warriorThat's what it sounded like to me also. Lol

@dsandoval9396 11 ай бұрын

The east coast accent makes it so much more funnier 😂😂😂

@pbxn-3rdx-85percent 11 ай бұрын

It's a sea pizza!

@khrystree9233 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing old line drawings of this fish and being amazed. Plus is has a permanently astonished expression ( like me )

@deddievedder9710 Ай бұрын

Sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this earth

@b10-flojomhonjoea.51 11 ай бұрын

she just straight out called the fish stupid, heck even its existence

@KoldBreeze 11 ай бұрын

I'm still laughing at that 🤣🤣🤣

@clairvaux8459 10 ай бұрын

The sunfish may not be very edible but that did not stop her from absolutely roasting it 😭

@davidewing9088 5 ай бұрын

Both this article and your highlighting Ground News is impressive

@blitzsturm5614 8 ай бұрын

If you ever feel like a failure just remember this fix hasn't changed for millions of years. You're not the problem, its the environment

@trueopsimath 11 ай бұрын

I remember seeing an artist's rendering of a sunfish in a book when I was a little boy and I wondered then if I would ever see such a fascinating creature. Twenty-five years later or so, in 1991, my brother-in-law and I encountered one while deep sea fishing off the coast of Georgia. It is truly one of the most amazing things I've have ever seen on the ocean. I will never forget it

@benjaminrobinson3842 10 ай бұрын

They're interesting to see even in aquariums. During one visit, I was looking at "ordinary" fish when a sunfish slowly emerged from the shadows, swam by the viewing window, then receded back into the darkness. It absolutely dwarfed all the other fish in size. Seeing one of these fish is truly memorable.

@gildedpeahen876 10 ай бұрын

It’s so majestic the way they fly with their fin-wings

@phillipthomas1379 10 ай бұрын

I used to be a commercial fisherman in NE. We caught one of these once. It was massive! Took six men on a wet slimy deck to get it back off. It's eye was as large as my entire outstretched hand. Beautiful amazing creatures. We got it back in the water unharmed.

@mrpickles-hb6zx 9 ай бұрын

Heheheheh *wet slimy deck* hehehehhe *6 men* aheeeehehe😁

@phillipthomas1379 9 ай бұрын

@@mrpickles-hb6zx (Grandpa) "Mr. Pickle! It was him!"

@brandhark7935 6 ай бұрын

You were a commercial fisherman in Nebraska? I’m guessing you didn’t do so hot…

@opheliafinch4887 6 ай бұрын

@@brandhark7935 new england

@gill426 5 ай бұрын

I'm really glad that you got it back into the water unharmed, these are such gentle giants! :)

@probablynotleo4340 3 ай бұрын

"Rules for animals that actually function" Yikes she just turned the sunfish into some barbecue with that one

@onemanfunkband5545 16 күн бұрын

I met one at the aquarium, it knew I could hear it, it begged for me to get it out of there. Hose things are deeply psychic too.

@mtwata 10 ай бұрын

"sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this Earth". Thank you. Someone finally understands me

@countessk 11 ай бұрын

I saw the text on the thumbnail and was ready to come in yelling "fight me!" I adore the Sunfish/Mola Mola! It's so unique, gentle and fascinating in my fish-nerd eyes. In the end, you did a good job describing a lot of the things I love about it. Thank you for the video!

@joshuabodde.6935 3 ай бұрын

“A place for everything, everything in its place”

@SUPERSTUDIO17 6 ай бұрын

This was SOOOO FASCINATING. I'm honestly shoook. Thank you!

@Luspenchief 10 ай бұрын

11:12 Absolutely the most poignant and effective use of the scientific term "fart" ever recorded in modern videography. Thumbs, subs and all bells. You've made my week. Thank you.

@Erika-up6iq 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. I laughed when she said that.

@johnreese7973 10 ай бұрын

11:17 for the perfect repeating

@andyroo3022 10 ай бұрын

I saw one of these sunfish in Hawaii Scuba diving at age 13 in 1977. I fed it airline biscuits you get on the plane. It took the biscuits squeezed out of the plastic packet from my hand, something I have never forgotten. Definetly a gentle oddball creature.

@secretagent4610 10 ай бұрын

Aww, that's so cute. And that sunfish has never forgotten that weird creature that fed it that tasty food that one time.

@andyroo3022 10 ай бұрын

@@secretagent4610 Ha, I am definetly a weird creature. I hope that a lot of its billion eggs grew into more big sunfish.

@enraegen561 5 күн бұрын

This fish is so weird that the class bully is afraid of him and leaves him alone. Peak evolution.

@MetalxxDragoness 2 ай бұрын

The creatures in this creation never cease to amaze me.

@henryparks4602 10 ай бұрын

I never thought I would see a sunfish dashcam in my life - it did not disappoint

@rollfizzlebeef6619 10 ай бұрын

LMAO that intro tho. For a while during that first 2 minutes, I was like "What is this? The Friar's Club Roast of the Sunfish?!". She was straight verbally massacring that fish. Talking about "its stupid looking deformed body" and "its weird flopping around at the surface behaviors" 😂. I half expected Jeff Ross to come out and tell her to go easy on it lol. This video ended up being very informative though, and I actually learned a lot about a fish I've always been really fascinated by. I fully support this new format of educational animal videos, where the first part is just roasting the hell out of the animal before then proceeding to educate about all of its fascinating biology. This was great. Both entertaining and informative

@nicholaspelz9422 5 ай бұрын

I've seen these fish in person out on the ocean, and they are truly incredible.

@DjSaltyNuhts 8 ай бұрын

I remember 23 years ago, asking a worker at the Monterey Bay Aquarium that I heard they used to have a sunfish and they told me no they never did. It feels sooooo good knowing I was right all along

@Kurayamiblack 10 ай бұрын

I remember my first time ever seeing one. I was roughly 7 years old and my dad took us to an aquarium and everything was great until we reached this dark area. When we walked into that area I came across a big window for a massive tank with no other windows on the walls at the far end and I couldn't see a "top" where the surface of the water would be. Just a big cavity completely filled with water. It was dark but lit just enough that you could see everything inside, but there was only 1 single entitiy in the entire tank. A massive Sunfish just looming through the dim blue tank all by itself just floating around as if life had no meaning. I don't know why, but it terrified me. It wasn't the fish itself, but something about the scene as a whole shook me to my core and I forgot literally everything about that trip except for that room...

@ally3186 4 ай бұрын

That's insane my dude, and I get ur prespective u described the scene so well

@lorinbridges6699 3 ай бұрын

Was it like seeing something that should be dead swimming around like it had life? Did it look alien to what you expected fish to be? Did it surprise you so much you were shocked? I'm just trying to comprehend how psychologically that occurs for someone, I'm curious

@laurah2831 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like it seemed depressing/depressed, what humans did to this magnificent creature, all alone in a prison. Also maybe a fear of what happens if such an oppressed creature breaks loose. I felt the same about a bison inside a giant stable at a zoo. I was so tiny and it was huge. Almost like being alone with it in the wild

@NoelMcGinnis 10 ай бұрын

So, if you are a sunfish, you won the lottery. When any creature lays that many eggs, the odds of being born at all is astronomical. You ARE that one in a billion.

@Hboutful 3 сағат бұрын

Take the sunfish as inspiration, life is weird and that’s okay. Anyone struggling with (certain, not all) mental illnesses or any disability really can tell you that life finds a way, and sometimes it’s better than sticking to the status quo.

@undefined6512 3 ай бұрын

This fish literally went "Fuck the meta, I'll do what I want"

@BlazingBlackMage 11 ай бұрын

This dump truck of a fish is genuinely my favorite. Endless Ocean was the first time I had ever seen it and both kickstarted my love for the ocean.

@krowodom5719 10 ай бұрын

Lol like the RV of the ocean.

@LisaApril 10 ай бұрын

Well, the ocean sunfish has turned out to be quite a Biologically clever fish. I admire them and I wish them all the best. The babies are adorable.

@skypilot23 2 ай бұрын

your voice modulation is very nice- and it never "breaks" at the end of statements very soothing

@7kortos7 2 күн бұрын

14:58 alright, i'm convinced this is just a Poke'mon. the first evolution is adorable!

@alexrogers777 11 ай бұрын

she roasted this fish so hard and I've never related to a fish more lmao I loved how much personality was in the narration too

@FromRussia_With_Love 10 ай бұрын

You relate to this fish? How? Are you and enormous disc-shaped creature, unable to close your mouth, and swim to improbably depths to eat gelatinous phytoplankton on a regular basis?

@TwitchCronos100 10 ай бұрын

@@FromRussia_With_Love enormous sphere shaped, mouth breather and swim in grease all day, I can see how some humans can relate lmao.

@asterlyons8564 10 ай бұрын

@@FromRussia_With_Loveno I just look kinda silly

@FromRussia_With_Love 10 ай бұрын

@@TwitchCronos100 Aha! But they DON'T breathe through their mouths, they breathe through their gills while keeping their mouths open! I'm screwing around of course.

@RS14988 9 ай бұрын

There is another reason sunfish bask near the surface and that's the parasites they accumulate. Because they' have no scales, only a mucus covered skin, it's much easier for parasites to latch on and some may even affect drag. So they float sideways at the surface and allow seabirds to pick at the parasites. The sunfish gets a bit of a cleanse and the birds get a free meal. Some fish hang around molas for the same reason, with the mola's size potentially protecting the smaller fish from their own predators. What I don't get though is how they are able to survive having huge chunks bitten out of them and they carry on as if it were a minor inconvenience at best. These things might seem like evolutionary accidents, but the fact that they have survived for as long as they have means that they've clearly done something right down the line.

@thatonejester3387 8 ай бұрын

When you have a lot of parasites, unless the thing likes to eat parasites it tends to stay away, so prominent predators will learn real quickly to avoid sunfish if they want to feel good

@Macaf4r 5 ай бұрын

Yo I really enjoyed this video. The humor was good the information was good the background video was great like a funny animal planet documentary lol hope you never stop making these

@evah3136 18 күн бұрын

The Sunfish really seems like a Pokemon. Even its babies look like different evolutions

@haveawonderfulday661 11 ай бұрын

fun fact: in German the sunfish is called Mondfisch (moonfish)

@MrHyperpolyglot 11 ай бұрын

Really? ☺

@haveawonderfulday661 11 ай бұрын

@@MrHyperpolyglot yes, really ^^

@SsjRedneck 11 ай бұрын

Any specific reason for the name change?

@gdcuaer4076 11 ай бұрын

Wait lol, why?

@saelesbonsazse9919 11 ай бұрын

Here in Brazil, also: "Peixe Lua" ( moon fish)

@wayne9094 10 ай бұрын

This fish gave me a really great fish story . I had been fishing off a jetty . But was not catching anything . Was walking down the beach with my wife and found a big dead ocean sunfish on the sand . It was over 4 feet long . I felt bad for it . But it was dead . So I put my little hook in its mouth . Let out some line . And had my wife take my picture like I had caught it . At work I was telling the people I worked with . I caught a giant ocean sunfish . I was only using 20 pound test line . And it took me over 5 hours to bring it in . They said sure you did . That's a good one . I said here is a picture . They then got all excited saying wow thought you were joking that's unbelievable that thing huge . By the time my dày was done I had people coming to me saying I heard you caught a ocean sunfish on 20 pound test line . Can I see the picture . Wow unbelievable . Yes it was unbelievable . Because I really did not catch it . If that sunfish had been alive . I would have done my best to get it back in the water . And would not had given up till I did .

@Doc_Aspy 10 ай бұрын

Best tall fish tale lol

@Goremachine 10 ай бұрын

You’re not supposed to put spaces before periods, just after.

@wayne9094 10 ай бұрын

@@Goremachine ok thanks for the correction. I had a similar comment about where I had put my periods. Only that person asked me . Why are you putting a period before each start of a sentence. As you can obviously tell. My writing skills are severally lacking. But I only write comments in the hopes somebody will get a smile out of it. And not go all teacher on me. But in this case it's not a big deal. Losing a limb is a big deal. I am 66 and can remember all the red ink a teacher would put on a test they gave me back. I should have looked at what the problem was. Instead of looking at that red ink. 😊

@diomarim7322 10 ай бұрын

If I'm your coworker I will ask the brand of 20lb line. That's one hell of a 20lb line haha

@wayne9094 10 ай бұрын

@@diomarim7322 this is why I told them it took me 5 hours to bring the fish in. So I wouldn't snap my line. Just very slowly play the fish till it got so tired. I could real it to shore . I had fun with my coworkers. I had gotten divorced . But am a private person. I did not go around work bad mouthing my wife. It was not some drawn out divorce. And not a big deal to either one of us. But one day for fun. I told a coworker. I cannot believe my x wife. He says I did not even know you were married. I said yes it just did not work out. But that she had sent me a picture of babies she had. Because I never wanted children. I said look at this picture. It was a picture of a mother pig feeding her babies. He said I should have known better believing anything you say. Life has no guarantees we will live even till tomorrow. Things happen. So for me. I do my best to not freakout over every little thing. I get a bad day. I do not dwell on it. I just get over it and do my best to just forget about it. So I do not lose night sleep out of it. Things when I was much younger would drive me so full of anxiety. I was like a over tightened spring. Just ready to let go. But over time realized all kinds of things happen to everyone. And getting all pissed off over it. Does not help the situation. Just figure things out and move on. The past is done.

@KGshink Ай бұрын

This is peak fish design. I am now fish-pilled thank you

@koogle612 4 ай бұрын

I went fishing out of bodega bay Ca about 5 yrs ago? I see these all the time but on this particular day the Capt (Rick) spotted a pair so turned toward them as the 65 ft boat eased up along them we got some phenomenal pictures. the 2 were each 8ft or larger and around 1000 lbs each. They have these very ethereal big blue eyes. With a single flush of their fins they effortlessly turned into a graceful slow dive. Pretty amazing creatures.

@TinkerManMick 10 ай бұрын

Love the way you present this like a regular person, very easy to understand and the way you describe this fish had me laughing 😂

@vice.nor.virtue 10 ай бұрын

I like her because she seems kind of pissed off at whatever she's explaining.

@geoffbuck6890 10 ай бұрын

sorry but I find her irritating…

@--rashid--1956 11 ай бұрын

Fish said:👁️👄👁️

@kyliecunnington7711 11 ай бұрын

👁O👁 Sorry I had to..

@AudoricArt 2 ай бұрын

more like: 🧿👄🧿

@i571d 2 ай бұрын

Lol

@Banana_Banshee 5 күн бұрын

ok, these things are actually awesome. they get way too much hate

@gageadavis 3 ай бұрын

Seeing on of these “Mola Mola” while scuba diving in Bali was mesmerising… they’re even crazier looking in person

@bryan-nz 10 ай бұрын

I spent most weekends of my childhood on my parents' game fishing boat off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and we'd fairly often see huge examples of these. My dad would tell me they were sunbathing.

@Fabiani930 10 ай бұрын

Yeah my uncle was fishing one time (im in Portugal) and saw a big lump so he shot it with his harpoon and fished it. we dont have these fish here. we were shocked when we found out where it was from. we made lots of amazing dishes while it lasted tho. was never a big fish fan but i never forgot the taste of that one haha

@michaelkrynski7793 10 ай бұрын

@@Fabiani930 Sounds gross. The videos even said they are greasy/fatty blobs!

@Fabiani930 10 ай бұрын

@@michaelkrynski7793 it just looks gross. lot of actual meat in them. i have a fish phobia so i wouldnt eat it if they told me it was this monstruosity before. but filleted on a plate is amazing haha

@bedtimerat 10 ай бұрын

Your dad was right 😊 sunbathing is one of their favorite pasttimes!! Sometimes their seagull friends will clean parasites off their bodies while they're at the surface, which does the sunfish a huge favor considering they can have over 40 different variants of parasites living on them at a given time.

@AdaptiveApeHybrid 8 ай бұрын

@michaelkrynski7793 it's considered a delicacy and is said to taste like crab or lobster 🤣

@devinanderson6716 10 ай бұрын

That first two minutes was an emotional roller coaster

@cccspwn 10 ай бұрын

Yea must be a Monday

@arkrowitz 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful video, well presented, interesting and with a great sense of humor. A great way to learn. Thanks!!

@5hank3r 11 ай бұрын

She scientifically roasted it for so long, I had to double check the channel name

@morganstauter8660 10 ай бұрын

I remember I had some little scuba diving game for the Wii called Endless Ocean that I played all the time as a kid. There was an option you could eventually unlock where you could go on night dives and I found a sunfish and I was absolutely terrified. I had no clue what it was, I thought it was some kind of floating shark head

@bedtimerat 10 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh, I think I played this game when I was quite young and I've been trying to remember what it was called for years!! I loved the game, but I was so terrified of this one part where you had to swim past a tiger shark that it scared me from playing it ever again 😅

@NikaKochetkova 10 ай бұрын

Same! I was trying to remember the game’s name for ages 🫣🫣

@hockysa 16 күн бұрын

Fish is basically ahead of its time

@rociioro 4 ай бұрын

What makes the sunfish even crazier is that in spanish is called "pez luna" which means literally "moonfish"

@LivingParadox87 10 ай бұрын

As always, amazing coverage on this topic! I also loved the humor and the fact that you included the infamous Boston Sunfish clip 😂 “That’s a tuna, bro!” (2 seconds later) “What IS that thing, Jay?”

@VinwardWasHere 10 ай бұрын

“Omg it’s a baby whale” 😭😭

@-xirx- 9 ай бұрын

A Baby Wheel in the wild!

@alexandermills92 9 ай бұрын

How the heck did you find her voice amazing? Jesus Christ

@sommeone 11 ай бұрын

This feels like a poster child for a TierZoo F tier

@kuromyou7969 10 ай бұрын

😆

@miserablebrian9245 3 ай бұрын

I am actually the biggest joke played on Earth. That spot is absolutely already well defined and taken by myself.

@Cindery936 4 ай бұрын

Yet another fun fact: Mola Mola, or Giant Oceanic Sunfish, have been seen escaping danger at speeds of up to 23.76 kilometers per hour in very short bursts.

@EJD339 11 ай бұрын

I went on a whale watching tour and we didn’t see anything but this fish. The guide got super excited seeing one while everyone on the boat could not care less lol.

@christinacalzacorta5123 11 ай бұрын

I'd call that a ship of fools....😒

@EJD339 11 ай бұрын

@@christinacalzacorta5123lol that’s actually really funny

@gavinlew8273 10 ай бұрын

I mean if you paid $50 to see a whale but saw a sunfish, you'd think you got ripped off and hope for a refund. It's understandable.

@EJD339 10 ай бұрын

@gavinlew8273 no refund but you got half off the next trip if you wanted to see another whale tour and they are pretty upfront you may not see a whale. It was just funny. Plus, they can't really tell the whales where to be haha

@mnxs 10 ай бұрын

@@gavinlew8273idk, but going on a sightseeing _in nature_ and not seeing anything and then *expecting a refund* seems so fking ignorant and entitled to me. If you want whimsical entertainment as a package deal, go to bloody Disneyland. Nature doesn't give a sh!t about our wants and desires, nor should it.

@stevenmossner9667 10 ай бұрын

Very educational and I like your candor! My 14 year old daughter encountered one at the beach on Long Island NY. The top fin splashed right next to her and the body brushed her friend. It spooked the heck out of them. The lifeguard told them they're harmless and they come to eat the jellyfish. It took a few years until she went back into the ocean after that.

@luna-p 2 ай бұрын

They're harmless... what about the freaking jellyfish??

@NickWeissMusic 10 сағат бұрын

Mola mola are something else. The fishiest guy I know, if you’re a fisherman you know what I mean, pulled a giant worm out of one of their heads. The mola mola proceeded to immediately eat said giant worm. In his estimation they’re the nexus of disgusting and beautiful, he could be right.

@D.H.1082 Ай бұрын

The land equivalent to this fish would be a bird with a tail so big and powerful, it could propel it into the air.

@DomyTheMad420 11 ай бұрын

"this is the dumbest fish ever" 15 minutes later "this may be the most perfect fish ever."

@NickLavic 10 ай бұрын

My first exposure to the ocean sunfish was Kine from Kirby's Dream Land 2. I thought it was a fictional fish species from the Kirby universe back then. I was really surprised when I found out that this oddly proportioned fish was real a few years later. It's a fascinating creature.

@stardragon5849 10 ай бұрын

Same here

@Hans_von_Kreit 10 ай бұрын

Yepp

@jagirl966 10 ай бұрын

Mine was Alomomola from Pokémon.

@razorbackroar 10 ай бұрын

same

@st.haborym 10 ай бұрын

Truth is stranger than fiction, art imitates life, etc. etc.

@geofri1747 2 ай бұрын

It's refreshing to hear a narrator who doesn't mispronounce common English words and phrases , Well Done.

@rfvtgbzhn 11 күн бұрын

I think the ectothermic nature of the sunfish is not the only reason why it is slow. It's also because it's shape isn't very aerodynamic.

@AlexSmith-gr4hp 11 ай бұрын

I’ve a son who’s lazy and weird but not a sunfish. Nonetheless, I’ll take this as hope he’ll survive and flourish.

@AcornsMomma 11 ай бұрын

Made my day! 😂

@gomahklawm4446 10 ай бұрын

Very unlikely.....

@vice.nor.virtue 10 ай бұрын

Maybe if he ejects 1 billion eggs per day...

@mnxs 10 ай бұрын

@@vice.nor.virtue _"1 billion __-eggs-__ _*_sperm_*_ per day"_ that's a teenage boy for ya.

@vice.nor.virtue 10 ай бұрын

@@mnxs aye. We are no different from Each other at 16

@diegofloor 10 ай бұрын

Caught off guard by the unexpected Ricky Gervais-style roast at the beginning! The sunfish didn't just swim into the deep end, it swam into a comedy central roast session. Educational and entertaining! I'm subbing to the channel immediately.