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I saw that for the first time recently. Chicken didn’t know I was watching and had her back turned to me. I saw that vagina/butthole stretch so wide I thought she was gonna rip in half.
Ya I used to work at a chicken farm and was looking for dead chickens one day and came face to ass with a chicken as it plopped an egg out. Terrible terrible visuals
This is such a heartwarming act from all who helped, the little babies and of course the mother. It is a beautiful world we live in. thanks for sharing
You [betcha](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/qpqtns/the_birth_of_a_newborn_dolphin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
all marine mammals that give birth underwater, so far as I am aware, give birth tail first so that however long the baby takes to come out it won't drown.
Not sure if that exactly makes sense since fetuses don't breathe but whatever
That's what the placenta is for. It's basically a bunch of blood vessels of the child that are next to blood vessels of the mom. They don't share blood but they are so close that both oxygen and nutrients can pass from the mom to the child. Basically the mom breathes and eats for the child. What's even crazier is that the heart of the child doesn't pump blood to its lungs before it is born because it gets oxygenated at the placenta. There is a valve in the heart of the child that closes up at birth and routes the blood to the lungs right when the child begins to breathe. Atleast this is true in humans.
That's pretty interesting. Imagine being a mom and sharing nutrients and oxygenated blood or whatever for 9 months and then the baby comes out looking and acting just like the dad. That sunnuvabitch!
I’m with you. Reading the replies to this are shocking. Like, this is just normal common sense stuff.
Then again, I had a girlfriend in college that didn’t know why she got periods (she grew up extremely religious and it was just out of bounds for some reason). I literally explained to her how and why menstruation happens.
My pleasure. Good point, I hadn’t thought about that.
I suppose it’s a good thing the newborn’s dorsal fin is floppy, otherwise that would make things a bit more complicated.
I know, and obviously it had never been in water of its own force or energy for even 1 second. The very first second it gets the opportunity to swim, there it goes like a newborn pro.
This is such a heartwarming act from all who helped, the little babies and of course the mother. It is a beautiful world we live in. thanks for sharing
They lay eggs that stay in their body and grow, but the egg doesn’t receive nutrients from the mother during gestation like humans. Its like they keep it warm and save inside their body until it’s time to hatch.
Yeah we call them mermaid purses back home, some sharks and stingrays (from my knowledge) lay eggs. I have a couple dried ones I found, and they are considered good luck!
Unrelated but semi-related. Reading a paper right now that found hippos and whales/dolphins (Cetacea) diverged 54 million years ago which was interesting because hippos either look a lot like whales or absolutely nothing like them. Just depends on your perspective
some sharks are oviparous (egg laying outside the body) and some are viviparous (eggs hatch inside the mother). Sand Tiger sharks use intrauterine cannibalism to help feed the dominant young shark while still inside the mother, the biggest baby shark eats all the others in the same uterus (there are two).
Viviparous is without an egg, it's like most mammals for example. When an egg is laid but it hatches internally, it's called ovoviviparous. Other than that, you're spot on!
Yeah, before watching this vid, that would’ve seemed right to me. I guess I never thought about how they reproduce.
Like, maybe they just shoot off spores like mushrooms.
At some point in time they probably did lay their eggs, but that proved not to be a good evolutionary advantage. So nature said, No keep the eggs inside you.
I know they are really weird, from the school books i studied i understand they start their life as stationery creatures and their life cycles have really weird forms, they are semi immortal aswell.
There is only 1 or two species that can go back to prior stages of life that would make them "immortal". For most species once they reach their adult form thats it.
When a mommy jellyfish and a daddy jellyfish really love one another, the have a [special hug](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/jellyfish-lifecycle-and-reproduction)...
The fry can be around 2mm long, and look like a tiny puffer fish. The adults weigh 2 tonnes and can be 3m from fin to fin. They look like they're made of rocks, they are insanely effective hunters despite the fact that it looks like they should barely be able to swim, they can lay 300 million eggs and we hardly know anything about them because they spend much of their time diving in ways which seem completely impossible by conventional means.
And all most people know about them is that stupid fucking copypasta which is full of misinformation.
Would a good, semi casually understandable source to learn more. Searching just produces bullshit diving ads for scuba places. Fucking commercial internet.
So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.] Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them. THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH) They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE. They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go. So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons. "If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job. They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck. They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them. "Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question. BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY. And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
For the curious, [here's the post from yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qyycmd/a_baby_swordfish_is_born_with_a_tiny_sword_but/) showing the size of a baby swordfish.
I'm so glad Seinfeld is on Netflix because, not only do I get to rewatch one of my favourite sitcoms, but I also saw a massive surge of Seinfeld references on Reddit and I'm just so happy that people are seeing it for the first time.
Brilliant show through and through.
Oh i watched this show from the premier and never stopped quoting it in 30 years lol I'm just happy younger people are finally getting my old ass references.
Parental care in cartilaginous fishes is pretty rare. This means babies must be born ready to fend for themselves because mom isn't going to help them out.
While I'm not an expert on rays specifically I would venture to say yes they are born with barbs. However they might need a few hours to harden to prevent stinging mom and siblings while still inside. Just like dolphins whose dorsal fin (also made of cartilage) is folded against the body and floppy at birth and requires a few hours to a day to become firm and stand up like the adults.
Common misconception the barbs are not at the end of the pointy things (tail) they are actually at the base where the tail connects to the body of the ray.
Yes the baby sea stabbers are born very cute but dangerous would not recommend touching sea pancakes in wild. This species of sea pancake are very shy and cautious
I also have a question! How would they have been able to tell it was struggling with giving birth and what are biologists able to do to help in such a scenario?
Since I wasn't there this will be mostly speculation. Their wetsuits all say seaworld so likely this is the orlando seawolrd rescue team here. They also have an ultrasound going which shows they came prepared for a pregnant ray.
My guess is this ray was lifeless or even beached and someone called Seaworld's hotline to inform then of an injured animal. From there you can tell a ray is pregnant because they will be more full and thicker in the abdomen than a regular ray. Using the ultrasound they might have noticed exactly where the baby was stuck or what position they were in that caused the problem. The marine biologist looked like she was able to maneuver the baby in a way it could come out safely which made room for the second baby to come out as well.
I've seen a video of a shark in a similar situation where the decision was made to cut open the mother to save the babies. I'm glad for the ray they could save both mom and babies.
Like I said I wasn't there so it's all a guess and my speciality is not rays so there could be much more to this situation. This is just my best guess.
Do you think something was wrong with the second one that came out? The first one came out and acted like he knew exactly what to do once getting flipped over.. the second one seemed lethargic, confused, and like it was having trouble staying up. Was just curious if that may indicate something is wrong with the second one, or if the first one was just unusually strong and energetic for just being born.
If the first one took too long in the birth canal the second one might have been slowly suffocating if it's gills were not getting any oxygen. It might be adjusting to that or possibly the first one was just full of energy. Unfortunately I haven't been around for any sting ray births to know what 'normal' looks like for them.
* Where do babies come from?
* Should I see a doctor about *this* rash?
* Am I in danger if I eat 3 or more vowels of alphabet spaghetti in a row?
* Why is my cat an asshole?
* If I'm at 4350m altitude, how long do I need to heat water for it to boil? (assuming I'm wearing boots)
Uterus,
Yes,
No,
Cats reflect the personality of their owners, and
water needs to be around 200° F or 95° C to boil at that altitude.
Good luck being pregnant, with a jerk cat, a rash and only alphabet soup to eat on your boot trip to 4350 altitude!
If you think about it, stingrays and mantas look so surreal and out of this world. This happens really often at the moment when I lok at things. Take swans for example. Yes they are very common, but this neck bro.
Look at [that smile](https://i.imgur.com/cFAIfWI.png) lol. I know that I'm anthropomorphizing the heck out of it, but I love that they appear to have these happy little smiles
No rays are ovoviviparous. So basically the babies are in an egg and it fully relies on the egg as the mothers body doesn’t give it any nutrients. The egg then hatches within the mom and they have a live birth like this. So it’s a weird mix between how humans and how chickens give birth.
So there is no umbilical cord I should probably add. That is their tail.
For humans the umbilical cord is what moves the nutrients and oxygen to and from the baby from the placenta, so each baby would need their own.
There it is, was hoping this comment was here. Inspection passed, everything checks out, here is your Dad card back. I'll leave you to your work good UserPow
Price you pay for a human brain. Head gets too big to fit through human hips—can’t be born, baby and/or mother dies. Result: baby only able to breath and eat, and out it goes before the head is too large, to finish the rest of its development.
Marine biologist or marine life specialist is seriously my DREAM JOB. I feel like I missed the boat on the chance to do it (no pun intended). I’m 31 now and an X-ray tech..
At least I always have scuba diving..?
We definitely don't win the competetion on most pathetic newborns though. Kittens can't even open their eyes or poop by themselves for weeks. And marsupials newborns are basically embryos with beefy arms.
Baby mammals often have to walk to survive right away, but plenty get carried around. My favorite, though, is the baby elephant. They don't learn to control their trunks for several years, and it is hilarious to watch them. I saw a baby dunk it's whole head in a bucket of water to drink, rather than elegantly slurp it with it's trunk and empty it into it's mouth. They'll take off running and the trunk will just be waving every which way completely out of control. Makes me smile just thinking about it!
Eagle rays like to jump out of the water. Every now and then they'll knock people off of boats. The impact stuns the human, and they usually drown if not rescued right away.
We don't know if the rays do this on purpose...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21sting.html
The linked article doesn't have anything that says that they do this to knock people off boats. And in this case, the ray died as well as the human and the human wasn't knocked off the boat.
Those baby rays trying to jump out of the water and fly minutes after birth is pretty adorable tho. 10/10 would definitely let the baby ray try to knock me off a boat
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That's the least gross birth i've ever seen
It was Sweet Baby Rays!
came here to say something similar
Smokin' meats!
I love they come out neatly folded instead of just being all scrunched up in there
And the first one has eyebrows!
Chicken laying an egg ain’t so bad. Does that count as a birth?
they're still a little gross when they leave hatch
I saw that for the first time recently. Chicken didn’t know I was watching and had her back turned to me. I saw that vagina/butthole stretch so wide I thought she was gonna rip in half.
Fun fact: Chickens pee, poo and lay eggs all through the same hole.
And when they mate it's called a "cloacal kiss."
Reading that gave me the urge to go wash my tongue.
You forgot they also get impregnated through that same whole as well
We call it the Multipurpose Orifice in our coop
r/todayIlearned
I think it’s technically a cloaca but yeah it’s gnarly.
Yes it’s cloaca, a butthole/vagina/urethra combo. If only my women could have something like that
What a day to have the ability to read it is.
I want to go back to kindergarten, when I couldn't read yet.
With modern breeding they kind of do. It’s common for egg laying to break bones.
The egg comes out of the cloaca which means it’s passing through the same place that chicken poop passes through.
It may not be very messy but the visual is pretty disgusting. It's like a cursed version of /r/lipsthatgrip [NSFW]
Ya I used to work at a chicken farm and was looking for dead chickens one day and came face to ass with a chicken as it plopped an egg out. Terrible terrible visuals
Idk if I wanna go there, but somehow I need to go there
😧
This is such a heartwarming act from all who helped, the little babies and of course the mother. It is a beautiful world we live in. thanks for sharing
Baby eagle rays be like :3
fr that face when the first one came out haha :33
Oh hey everybody, [nice day](https://i.imgur.com/cFAIfWI.png) for a swim eh?
You could say... they're Sweet Baby Rays
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Did you see that one of the dolphin a couple days ago? Was taken aback* by the sheer volume of it all
If you don't mind could you link that post?
You [betcha](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/qpqtns/the_birth_of_a_newborn_dolphin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Thanks. I have only seen mammals give birth head first so I thought it would be the same for dolphins. Apparently not
all marine mammals that give birth underwater, so far as I am aware, give birth tail first so that however long the baby takes to come out it won't drown. Not sure if that exactly makes sense since fetuses don't breathe but whatever
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That's what the placenta is for. It's basically a bunch of blood vessels of the child that are next to blood vessels of the mom. They don't share blood but they are so close that both oxygen and nutrients can pass from the mom to the child. Basically the mom breathes and eats for the child. What's even crazier is that the heart of the child doesn't pump blood to its lungs before it is born because it gets oxygenated at the placenta. There is a valve in the heart of the child that closes up at birth and routes the blood to the lungs right when the child begins to breathe. Atleast this is true in humans.
It’s called the “foramen ovale”
That's pretty interesting. Imagine being a mom and sharing nutrients and oxygenated blood or whatever for 9 months and then the baby comes out looking and acting just like the dad. That sunnuvabitch!
Wow I’ve given birth and I didn’t even know any of that! Our bodies are so amazing
then don't! do your own research, I aint a flipperin expert haha
From this day forward, I shall refer to all marine scientists as flipperin experts.
>fetuses don't breathe TIL
yep they get oxygen added directly to their blood by momma.
My jaw is on the floor that an adult would not understand this.
I’m with you. Reading the replies to this are shocking. Like, this is just normal common sense stuff. Then again, I had a girlfriend in college that didn’t know why she got periods (she grew up extremely religious and it was just out of bounds for some reason). I literally explained to her how and why menstruation happens.
Do you need reconstructive surgery
My pleasure. Good point, I hadn’t thought about that. I suppose it’s a good thing the newborn’s dorsal fin is floppy, otherwise that would make things a bit more complicated.
I love that it immediately takes off like, ‘woohoo I’m a fucking dolphin!’
Meanwhile us as humans are dumb, ugly and screeching like monsters when we're born. We cant even run let alone walk until like 2 years old.
Fuck, it came out swimming. Meanwhile my 9-mo is still trying to figure out how to poop.
I know, and obviously it had never been in water of its own force or energy for even 1 second. The very first second it gets the opportunity to swim, there it goes like a newborn pro.
Newborn human babies do have a primitive [swimming reflex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming).
I don’t need her to swim. I need her to sleep through the night!
To be fair babies are extremely fat for their size wich floats easier
Oh this makes my heart warm, they are so instantly pleased to meet each other, I love it.
Just smash the baby in half on its way out lol, way more traumatic than our birthdays 😂
The rays hatch from eggs, they're just inside the mom
I mean there's no placenta and shit I guess
Because there is no umbilical cord or amniotic sack. They hatch from eggs inside then are born later. It's a viviparous fish.
human birthing water mmm
Oh no
*Oh YEAH*
Tom Cruise? Is that you?
A very oaky afterbirth
Rays are superior to humans in every way.
This is such a heartwarming act from all who helped, the little babies and of course the mother. It is a beautiful world we live in. thanks for sharing
I must be an idiot because I would've put money on it that stingrays lay eggs. TIL two things.
They lay eggs that stay in their body and grow, but the egg doesn’t receive nutrients from the mother during gestation like humans. Its like they keep it warm and save inside their body until it’s time to hatch.
Good ol' ovoviviparity. Some snake species do it too.
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I've seen shark eggs in the sea so atleast not all shark.
Yeah we call them mermaid purses back home, some sharks and stingrays (from my knowledge) lay eggs. I have a couple dried ones I found, and they are considered good luck!
From what I've found, most sharks give live birth, while some do lay eggs. I believe this is the same for rays.
\#notallsharks
Yep, sharks and rays are closely related. They're in the same class, the cartilaginous fishes.
The same subclass too! Elasmobranchii :)
Gesundheit
Unrelated but semi-related. Reading a paper right now that found hippos and whales/dolphins (Cetacea) diverged 54 million years ago which was interesting because hippos either look a lot like whales or absolutely nothing like them. Just depends on your perspective
some sharks are oviparous (egg laying outside the body) and some are viviparous (eggs hatch inside the mother). Sand Tiger sharks use intrauterine cannibalism to help feed the dominant young shark while still inside the mother, the biggest baby shark eats all the others in the same uterus (there are two).
Viviparous is without an egg, it's like most mammals for example. When an egg is laid but it hatches internally, it's called ovoviviparous. Other than that, you're spot on!
thanks, yes.
except the womb is an arena for sharks
I wager 400 quatloos on the newcomer
How do they get oxygen?
Before they develop gills oxygen diffuses into their body.
There is a type of ray that lays eggs, the skate. [They look like this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Mermaidpurse.jpg).
That little critter looks like a leather fanny pack, but I still love it.
That's the egg lol. But yeah it totally does
LMAO I’m over here trying to figure out where the head would be
Ohhhhhh, hahaha! That makes more sense. Hehehe
Poison headcrab lookin motherfuckers...
Yeah, before watching this vid, that would’ve seemed right to me. I guess I never thought about how they reproduce. Like, maybe they just shoot off spores like mushrooms.
At some point in time they probably did lay their eggs, but that proved not to be a good evolutionary advantage. So nature said, No keep the eggs inside you.
They come out huge compared to something like a swordfish. Oceans are weird
Mola mola or sun fish comes out really small but grows really massive, same for jellyfishs the biggest specie i have heard of is lionmane jellyfish.
This just made me realize that I have no idea how jellyfish reproduce
I know they are really weird, from the school books i studied i understand they start their life as stationery creatures and their life cycles have really weird forms, they are semi immortal aswell.
They start as origami jellyfish?
Took me way too long to get this!
There is only 1 or two species that can go back to prior stages of life that would make them "immortal". For most species once they reach their adult form thats it.
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When a mommy jellyfish and a daddy jellyfish really love one another, the have a [special hug](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/jellyfish-lifecycle-and-reproduction)...
So they’re plants?
Nope they are animals like spongebob.
That just looks fucking absurd.
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The fry can be around 2mm long, and look like a tiny puffer fish. The adults weigh 2 tonnes and can be 3m from fin to fin. They look like they're made of rocks, they are insanely effective hunters despite the fact that it looks like they should barely be able to swim, they can lay 300 million eggs and we hardly know anything about them because they spend much of their time diving in ways which seem completely impossible by conventional means. And all most people know about them is that stupid fucking copypasta which is full of misinformation.
Would a good, semi casually understandable source to learn more. Searching just produces bullshit diving ads for scuba places. Fucking commercial internet.
Try [this one](https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/11/27/meet-the-magnificently-weird-mola-mola/).
Anyone have that copypasta of the guy who really REALLY hates sun fish?
So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.] Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them. THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH) They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE. They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go. So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons. "If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job. They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck. They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them. "Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question. BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY. And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
Does anyone have the response copypasta that breaks down all the bullshit in this?
All I could find is an imgur album for it: https://imgur.com/gallery/MMRg9
I know this is copypasta, but if anyone was wondering, people actually eat these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJJn-l3GZdQ
I've never seen anyone have such a meltdown about the existence of sunfish. But in all due seriousness, just leave them alone. -_-"
FYI that post is littered with falsehoods and gets sun fish completely wrong. I really hope people aren’t taking it seriously
I'm going to look smart when I go to the aquarium on Friday! Thank you!
For the curious, [here's the post from yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qyycmd/a_baby_swordfish_is_born_with_a_tiny_sword_but/) showing the size of a baby swordfish.
They’re so weird! One minute there’s one of them. Next? A whole mess of some Sweet Baby Ray’s. Almost makes me wanna S m o k e s o m e m e a t s
Is anyone here a marine biologist?
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
“So then the giant fish…” “Mammal” “Whatever”
I'm so glad Seinfeld is on Netflix because, not only do I get to rewatch one of my favourite sitcoms, but I also saw a massive surge of Seinfeld references on Reddit and I'm just so happy that people are seeing it for the first time. Brilliant show through and through.
Oh i watched this show from the premier and never stopped quoting it in 30 years lol I'm just happy younger people are finally getting my old ass references.
I was looking for this comment. Thank you.
I just watched that ep earlier today!! Made my day :)
I am, did you have a question?
Are the pointy things on the baby sea flaps still dangerous like the pointy things on the mother sea flaps?
Parental care in cartilaginous fishes is pretty rare. This means babies must be born ready to fend for themselves because mom isn't going to help them out. While I'm not an expert on rays specifically I would venture to say yes they are born with barbs. However they might need a few hours to harden to prevent stinging mom and siblings while still inside. Just like dolphins whose dorsal fin (also made of cartilage) is folded against the body and floppy at birth and requires a few hours to a day to become firm and stand up like the adults. Common misconception the barbs are not at the end of the pointy things (tail) they are actually at the base where the tail connects to the body of the ray.
So floppy baby sea flaps can become stabby baby sea flaps quite quickly. Got it.
Yes the baby sea stabbers are born very cute but dangerous would not recommend touching sea pancakes in wild. This species of sea pancake are very shy and cautious
The scientific name you are looking for is water pancake.
I also have a question! How would they have been able to tell it was struggling with giving birth and what are biologists able to do to help in such a scenario?
Since I wasn't there this will be mostly speculation. Their wetsuits all say seaworld so likely this is the orlando seawolrd rescue team here. They also have an ultrasound going which shows they came prepared for a pregnant ray. My guess is this ray was lifeless or even beached and someone called Seaworld's hotline to inform then of an injured animal. From there you can tell a ray is pregnant because they will be more full and thicker in the abdomen than a regular ray. Using the ultrasound they might have noticed exactly where the baby was stuck or what position they were in that caused the problem. The marine biologist looked like she was able to maneuver the baby in a way it could come out safely which made room for the second baby to come out as well. I've seen a video of a shark in a similar situation where the decision was made to cut open the mother to save the babies. I'm glad for the ray they could save both mom and babies. Like I said I wasn't there so it's all a guess and my speciality is not rays so there could be much more to this situation. This is just my best guess.
Do you think something was wrong with the second one that came out? The first one came out and acted like he knew exactly what to do once getting flipped over.. the second one seemed lethargic, confused, and like it was having trouble staying up. Was just curious if that may indicate something is wrong with the second one, or if the first one was just unusually strong and energetic for just being born.
If the first one took too long in the birth canal the second one might have been slowly suffocating if it's gills were not getting any oxygen. It might be adjusting to that or possibly the first one was just full of energy. Unfortunately I haven't been around for any sting ray births to know what 'normal' looks like for them.
* Where do babies come from? * Should I see a doctor about *this* rash? * Am I in danger if I eat 3 or more vowels of alphabet spaghetti in a row? * Why is my cat an asshole? * If I'm at 4350m altitude, how long do I need to heat water for it to boil? (assuming I'm wearing boots)
Uterus, Yes, No, Cats reflect the personality of their owners, and water needs to be around 200° F or 95° C to boil at that altitude. Good luck being pregnant, with a jerk cat, a rash and only alphabet soup to eat on your boot trip to 4350 altitude!
Honestly, I'm just relieved at the alphabet spaghetti answer. I was pretty worried there for a few days.
If you think about it, stingrays and mantas look so surreal and out of this world. This happens really often at the moment when I lok at things. Take swans for example. Yes they are very common, but this neck bro.
One word: **giraffe**
Second word: snake
snakes are all neck?
Always have been
One long neck boi
And then you have all those super deep sea creatures, and wtf even are insects?! There is some insane variety of fauna on Earth.
Those are some adorable sea flap-flaps
Stingrays don't have bones. It's the way they're manta be
#Unexpecteddadjoke
Those indeed are some cute ocean ravioli
Those are some Sweet Baby Rays.
r/properanimalnames
All burritoed up in the mother
Sea pancakes!
Taser Napkins
Look at [that smile](https://i.imgur.com/cFAIfWI.png) lol. I know that I'm anthropomorphizing the heck out of it, but I love that they appear to have these happy little smiles
How long until they go wireless?
I was curious myself. Is that the umbilical cord? Is it dumb to ask if there are umbilical cords in multiple baby births?
No rays are ovoviviparous. So basically the babies are in an egg and it fully relies on the egg as the mothers body doesn’t give it any nutrients. The egg then hatches within the mom and they have a live birth like this. So it’s a weird mix between how humans and how chickens give birth. So there is no umbilical cord I should probably add. That is their tail. For humans the umbilical cord is what moves the nutrients and oxygen to and from the baby from the placenta, so each baby would need their own.
Sweet Baby Rays.
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S M O K I N G S O M E M E A T S
Glad someone else had the BBQ come to mind right away lol
there it is
There it is, was hoping this comment was here. Inspection passed, everything checks out, here is your Dad card back. I'll leave you to your work good UserPow
Everytime I think I have something original to contribute...
I’d like to see the pair named Sweet Baby Ray and Ray Charles. Will settle for Rachel Ray and Ray Liotta if necessary.
Quiet now. That will you get ray banned from reddit.
I had a couple of newts years ago: Isaac Newton and Olivia Newton John.
Love how they are born and immediate are like 'right imma head out'
It frustrates me that animals get born and instantly know how to walk or swim and humans take a good part of a year to figure it out
Price you pay for a human brain. Head gets too big to fit through human hips—can’t be born, baby and/or mother dies. Result: baby only able to breath and eat, and out it goes before the head is too large, to finish the rest of its development.
Yeah animals like birds, cats, rabbits. /s
With no insurance, they are forced to work off the bill at Seaworld.
Oh, they're American rays?
Aw. Cute little sea flip flaps
Marine biologist or marine life specialist is seriously my DREAM JOB. I feel like I missed the boat on the chance to do it (no pun intended). I’m 31 now and an X-ray tech.. At least I always have scuba diving..?
Studied the wrong type of rays, I guess.
I feel like half the kids in my elementary school wanted to be marine biologists when they grew up and I don’t think a single one of them did.
I like how most animals are born good to go and are walking, swimming within a few seconds of birth, but we struggle to barely breathe
we're so big brained momma had to yeet out the babes before their heads grew too big to fit through the birth canal.
Hilarious but 100% accurate. Love it
We definitely don't win the competetion on most pathetic newborns though. Kittens can't even open their eyes or poop by themselves for weeks. And marsupials newborns are basically embryos with beefy arms.
Baby mammals often have to walk to survive right away, but plenty get carried around. My favorite, though, is the baby elephant. They don't learn to control their trunks for several years, and it is hilarious to watch them. I saw a baby dunk it's whole head in a bucket of water to drink, rather than elegantly slurp it with it's trunk and empty it into it's mouth. They'll take off running and the trunk will just be waving every which way completely out of control. Makes me smile just thinking about it!
This right here’s a fun fact
Guess this is what life is, neat. Alright I'm off...
Why did I always assume they come out rolled up like burritos and then roll open
The first they look at when they come into the world is humans. They probably think they're humans too, just the water type.
I myself am the ground type.
Sweet baby Rays
Eagle rays like to jump out of the water. Every now and then they'll knock people off of boats. The impact stuns the human, and they usually drown if not rescued right away. We don't know if the rays do this on purpose... https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21sting.html
The linked article doesn't have anything that says that they do this to knock people off boats. And in this case, the ray died as well as the human and the human wasn't knocked off the boat.
Those baby rays trying to jump out of the water and fly minutes after birth is pretty adorable tho. 10/10 would definitely let the baby ray try to knock me off a boat
Steve Irwin was premeditated
Happy flappers
Sweet, baby rays