Thursday, February 1, 2007

A blog about fish.

I'm been doing some really boring work on fish. I mean fish locomotion is boring...they move in the water at different speeds according to loads of variables that scientists don't understand but spend a lot of time trying to work out. They have different types of muscle and generally... well they are fish.
But then again, they are pretty amazing...once you get past the fact that fish are fish.
There are so many different kinds of fish. There are tuna yes, but there are also Seahorses and Anglerfish and Butterfly fish. There are these fish called SeaDragons that look like seaweed but are actually beautiful delicate animals.
They have so many adaptations that allow them to survive, and live and reproduce and to be honest we really don't understand most of them, they're too complex. Out there in the Ocean they exist almost in another world, that is so far removed from our terrestrial world that we find it difficult to contemplate. A lost world on our door step.
So the moral of my little rant? I suppose there are two ways to look at anything. You can look at the mundane, or you can look a little deeper and see the beauty in things. Yes even fish are beautiful!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

fish - beautiful? you must be kidding.