The World's Ugliest Fish, Winning Seven Consecutive Years – It's Sad, Isn't It?
British has a World Ugly Animal Association
Spending the whole day discussing which animal looks the ugliest
Voted in 2013
The blobfish was voted as ‘the world’s ugliest fish’
After that, it consecutively won for seven years
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Just how ugly is the blobfish???
Why is it called ‘blobfish’?
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Blobfish is a member of the Lipophrine family under the order of Opisthoprochordati, and has lived in the underwater area of the southwest Pacific for generations, which is the Australian deep sea and the coastal area of Tasmania. Here, the underwater area means that the blobfish lives at a depth of 600 to 1200 meters, under the pressure of the water. It cannot survive in the shallow water, so freshwater breeding is impossible. Besides, it’s so ugly.
It says it’s ugly for a long time, so it got the ‘sad fish’ and ‘soft lipophrine’ and ‘wavefish’ names.
Here is the picture:
Emmm……, it’s really not great.
Just from this appearance, it got the names of ‘sad fish’, ‘soft lipophrine’, and ‘wavefish’. It’s ugly and has a ‘sad’ face, so it’s also called ‘the world’s saddest fish’.
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The blobfish has a jelly-like body, which looks like a blob: it’s not surprising that the blobfish is so ugly. In the blobfish’s living environment, the ‘muscle meat’ – the tissues that help fish maintain buoyancy – cannot work effectively, so in order to maintain buoyancy, the blobfish’s body is composed of a slightly smaller density than water, so that the blobfish can easily float up from the seabed.
But this also makes it move slowly in the water and cannot escape capture when facing the deep sea fishing.
Due to the reasons of the living environment and the body structure, once they are on land or in shallow water, they will expand internally under the pressure, and become like the picture in the Internet.
Therefore, scientists speculate that the blobfish’s image in the deep sea is similar to that of bony fish, and will not be overly swollen.
Deep sea blobfish (conjecture chart)
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Regardless of ridicule, it’s known that without equipment, the maximum depth of human underwater diving is about 100 meters. If humans enter the underwater area of 1000 meters, the body is likely to be flattened and become another like a meatloaf, which is difficult to say.
At that time, the blobfish living in the deep sea might also vote humans as the ugliest terrestrial animal.
Let’s get back to the point, except for the head and the tail, so the blobfish has the nickname ‘blobfish’. Its English name ‘Blobfish’ originally means ‘indescribable blob’.
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According to the certification of the fishery, blobfish has no edible value, so there’s no need to think about its taste. If we guess, we can think along this line: The blobfish has no muscles, so the taste of the blobfish is likely to be like a fat – without the meat of pork. This makes the blobfish meat cannot be called ‘meat’...
Such fish have a jelly-like body throughout, and this kind of substance may also harm human health.
Blobfish's mimic
Even so, the blobfish couldn’t escape the fate of being persecuted by humans in the deep sea.
Close relatives are better than distant neighbors, so the blobfish’s living range has a large number of crabs and lobsters. As permanent members of the seafood field, they can’t escape being caught, so the blobfish’s habitat has become one of the most active deep-sea fishing areas in the world.
Because it has no edible value, humans don’t have the intention to harm it. However, under the means of deep-sea trawling, innocent blobfish are caught and brought to the surface regularly. Once they are brought to the surface, they will quickly die: leaving the deep sea, the blobfish’s body will quickly suffer from ‘decompression syndrome’ and start to swell and decay.
Even if it’s quickly returned to the sea, it can’t come back, it can only become a funeral for other edible seafood.
