Archerfish or basketfish (often incorrectly called basketfish or archerfish) include 7 species distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and some sea areas in India. Philippines Australia…
This species can live in both freshwater and saltwater environments. They spend most of their time swimming near the surface of the water. They have a pointed head and a wide mouth flat and elongated, but the most special thing is the specially structured mouth. The fish’s mouth can create great pressure inside to spray powerful jets of water like “shooting a water gun” at its prey.
The main target of basketfish is small insects, spiders or small lizards. They often swim around on the surface of the water looking for insects and small animals on trees. After identifying the correct target, they will create high pressure in their mouths to perform “shooting” from underwater.
Highly accurate shots at distances of up to 2 m. Thanks to its ability to accurately take down prey at a distance, the basketfish is also considered an excellent underwater “archer”, even compared to “Olympic champions” in archery.< /p>
According to researchers of basketry fish Can locate prey on the water surface more accurately than underwater. And they only take about 1/10 of a second after hitting the opponent with a stream of water. When the prey falls, they will immediately rush to swallow it.
Sources from research groups show that to create a strong and accurate water jet to hit the target, the basket-gilled fish will turn its mouth into a “gun barrel” by pressing its tongue into a groove. dome on the mouth.
When ready to “shoot”, they will compress their gills to push water out, constantly changing the shape of their mouth so that the water stream can target and successfully shoot the opponent.
The interesting thing is that this fish only shows the ability to “shoot a gun”. water” is excellent in the wild. When taken to laboratories, they seem to not show the same precision and strength as before.
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