… blind procreative instinct, or something larger:
The Japanese ?? Puffer Fish is probably nature's greatest artist ?
To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief ?
— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) October 9, 2021
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… blind procreative instinct, or something larger:
The Japanese ?? Puffer Fish is probably nature's greatest artist ?
To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief ?
— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) October 9, 2021
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Lapassionara
What a beautiful design. Thanks.
Another Scott
There’s a giant cat down the street that is shaped like an inflated pufferfish or basketball when it sits down. It came up to me a couple of days ago when I was walking Ellie – it wanted to say hello and get some stitches.
I petted its back and was amazed to find that it’s almost all fur!
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
@Lapassionara:
it would be interesting to see the designs of other puffer fish. I wonder if they’re like snowflakes or fingerprints.
raven
Here’s one I caught in 10,000 Islands.
West of the Rockies
Man… and I thought it was a big deal because I did the laundry and made dinner.
LeftCoastYankee
The romantic part of me was hoping Betty Bubblefish would wander by and be very impressed with Barney Bubblefish’s work of art.
The post-2020 part of me was waiting for the shark….
Seriously, this is very wondrous.
craigie
That’s amazing, all the more so because he’s made a perfect circle (actually several of them) without ever being able to see them while he’s doing it.
Jim Appleton
There’s a joke in here somewhere involving “fugu,” but I’m hopeless at finding it …
Ajabu
To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief
Exactly what drove me to become a professional musician…
phdesmond
@Ajabu:
i think of my poet self less as a puffer fish and more as a bower bird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89tw093s_Y
Kalakal
SFBayAreaGal
So perfect.
SiubhanDuinne
@craigie:
It’s a marine mandala.
Benw
@Another Scott: my folks rescued a pair of Himalayan kittens. We named them Edmund and Lucy after the Narnia siblings and it’s impossible to overstate how their gigantic floof disguised tiny cat bodies.
HumboldtBlue
Imagine having to drag your li’l Johnny through the sand like that to catch a hottie, leaves my brow in a furrow!
I’ll stick with ridiculous handsomeness and a penchant for silliness to catch a female puffer fish’s eye.
It’s not easy being a Merman.
Oh, and the Southsiders are staying alive with the bats!
Yutsano
I sent El pufferfish to a friend of mine who also happens to be a specialist in marine life at the Monterey Aquarium*. I’m pretty sure he’s seen one of these in the water up close!
*I think that’s where he works. I’m not going to bug him about it except he works at an aquarium in the Bay area.
John Cole
Impressive, but it’s no mullet
Ian R
Poor fish. All that work, only to have the target audience scared off by a submarine camera drone.
Lyrebird
@HumboldtBlue: He’s dragging a fin through the sand iiuc, but you’re still right! I wished that Betty Puffer had shown up too.
brendancalling
@Ajabu: yup, same here!
I thought knowing how to partner dance was the be-all, I got nothing on this fish!
mrmoshpotato
As I said before, they should have to dodge rolling trash cans, Donkey Kong-style.
Misterpuff
Flowers always work.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I was just talking to friend, she does service jobs. She mention she does doordash three days a week, earsn, 300 to 400 for 20 hours of work. No wonder no one can be bothered to wait tables.
trollhattan
Fans of “Chinatown” or folks generally interested in California water wars might find this of interest.
Cameron
Sorry. Seen it already in an early ’50s sci-fi flick.
soapdish
So did he score or not?
Poe Larity
@raven:
It’s like you killed Gustav Klimt of the sea.
Chetan Murthy
That little clip was fascinating. It made me immediately wonder what the variation of designs for such mandalas is (what symmetries the fish are capable of expressing) : perhaps some fish create ovals? ellipses? squares? Are they always rotationally symmetric?
Starboard Tack
@trollhattan: Hopefully there will be enough water in spite of endemic drought.
oldster
It’s cool, and props to the fishy. But unique in the animal kingdom? Tell that to the spiders, the beavers, the weaver-birds, etc. There are many amazing architect-builders outside of the primate taxa.
Ohio Mom
Disclaimer: I don’t believe in an intelligence behind the unviverse, I believe in evolution, completely.
But what a marvel, that evolution selects for fish drawn mandellas!