What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just

What we know about fishes is only a tiny slice of what they know.

They have the options of grating their teeth in their jaws, grinding additional sets of teeth lining their throat, rubbing bones together, stridulating their gill covers, and even—as we’ll see—expelling bubbles from their anuses.

her act of removing them from their element to suffocate symbolizes the suffering they endured at our hands, and her extraordinary sympathy, expressed at such a tender age and still felt today, reminds us of the infinite potential for humans, when we are aware, to do good in the world.

photos of their gaping, rotting bodies stretching to the horizon remind me that our subject's name is synonymous with it's own demise, for the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it

the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it

In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.