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- 2. Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 PhysicalCharacteristics……………………………………………………………………………………………4 Food…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Blob Fish life cycle…………………………………………………………………………………………………..6 Puffer Fish life cycle………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 Puffer Fish Vs Blob Fish………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Did You Know?...........................................................................................................................................9 Habits/ Behaviors……………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Habitat………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 Glossary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………13
- 3. IntroductionWELCOME TO THEBLOB FISH! LETS TRAVEL TO THE DEEP SEAS OF WEST-SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN! WE’LL DISCOVER LOTS ABOUT THE BLOB FISH. THEY MIGHT BE UGLY, BUT THEY’RE INTERESTING, TOO! JUST REMEMBER, IF YOU DEEP SEA TRAWL, STOP! YOUR KILLING AND MAKING THE BLOB FISH MORE ENDANGERED! YEP, THEY’RE ENDANGERED. ANYWAYS, LETS GO! :) hello. I’m a happy Blob fish.
- 4. Physical Characteristics 1. THE BLOBFISHCOLOR IS PINKISH, REDDISH, WHITEISH, AND GRAYISH. 2. THE PATTERN ON THEIR SKIN ARE SCALEY SPIKES ON THEIR BODY. 3. BLOBFISH WEIGHT: LESS THAN A POUND HEIGHT:1 FT. LENGTH: 1 FT. 4.A UNIQUE FEATURE IS THAT ITS SKIN TURN GRAY WHEN OUT OF WATER AND DIES 5.IT PROTECTS ITSELF BY LIVING DEEP IN THE OCEAN SO THE PRETEDORS DON’T GET THEM.
- 5. Food 1. Since Blobfish can’t move, they can only eat things that fly into his mouth. The only things that fly into it’s mouth are crustaceans. So that’s what they eat. 2.How blob fish hunt is that the food floats in its mouth. Yes, that’s how they hunt. 3.Did you know that blob fish do not hunt in groups? Probably not. IM HUNGRY!
- 6. Blob fish lifecycle Female blob fish lays thousands of eggs. The blob fish stay with their eggs the whole time until they hatch! Blob fish fingerling hatches out of egg. Blob fish eats on its own and goes into the wild Because of water pressure, blob fish can live up to 130 years! Lets go! Blob fish dies Fun fact! Blob fish male and female don’t incubate their eggs!
- 7. Puffer fish lifecycle Puffer fish lay about 3-4 eggs depending of what species they are.Mother puffer fish don’t care for their babies, so when the eggs are laid, the mother swims away. The puffer fish babies stay in their eggs for 5 days. Adult puffer fish the average puffer fish live to about 10 years.
- 8. Puffer Fish vs.Blob Fish 1.Puff up to defend 2. Eats Invertebrates and algae 3. lay 3-4 eggs 4. Lives up to 130 years 1.Live deep to defend 2.Eats crustaceans 3. Lay thousands of eggs 4. Lives up to 10 years Puffer Fish Blob Fish 1. Both lay eggs 2. both have scales 3. They both live in the ocean
- 9. Did you Know? 1.Blobfish lay their eggs deep in the ocean. 2. Blob fish have no muscles or bones. 3. Blob fish are endangered animals. 4. A bob fish's nose is not a nose, it’s just skin.
- 10. Habits/ Behaviors 1. Blobfish just float around in the ocean. 2.They don’t care about neighbors, they just let them in their territory. 3. They like to frown a lot. They do that because they don’t have a jaw bone. 4.Blob fish are very friendly. Fun fact! blob fish are known as “fat heads”
- 11. Habitat 1.Blob fish liveabout 3, 900 ft. deep in the ocean. 2. Blob fish do not migrate in the ocean. 3.Their climate is deep in the cold, bottomless ocean.
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- 13. Glossary INCUBATE- to warmand keep eggs safe CRUSTECEANS- things like shrimp, plankton, crabs, etc. TERRITORY- an area that someone or something owns ENDANGERED- a species that is almost extinct MIGARATAE- to move somewhere else in different seasons FINGERLING- a baby fish DEEP SEA TRAWL- to lower a huge net to about the bottom of the ocean and catch fish and lobster. PSYCHROLUTES MARCIDUS- Greek for a cold bath UNIQUE- different an unusual PLUSH-a stuffed animal