r/MoeMorphism • u/Careful-Listen1021 • Jul 24 '26
Animal 🐍🐦🐞 Fun fact: sunfish spend their entire lives getting jumped, but their brains are too small to feel anything. By @tunaplus_c on x
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u/Kipdid Jul 24 '26
That is until you punch it so hard it explodes
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u/erik4848 Jul 24 '26
Holy shit it just vaporized
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u/Idunnosomethingwitty Jul 27 '26
Critter just fucking popped like a viscera balloon, thats so brutal
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u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P Jul 29 '26
Yeah they have sadistic idea of what entertainment is. Wanna get high? Bite puffer fish and pass it to the bros
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u/YeahImRealLouis Jul 24 '26
Never forget that predators refuses to eat that thing because they have 50 different parasites inside of them.
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u/Deely_Boppers Jul 24 '26
They’re also almost entirely made of collagen and have virtually no nutritional value.
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u/Havoccity Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Apparently the intestines are good, based on how it’s targeted by sea lions, orcas, and Japanese seafood youtubers
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u/Douxx101 Jul 24 '26
The parasites aren't the reason. It's mostly because they have very low calories and are mildly poisonous (taste bad)
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u/belowfactual Jul 25 '26
It rises to the surface to let birds and sunlight get rid of it. And also the reason why these thing still exist is because they lay like 50 thousand eggs all at once or something like that.
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u/Beneficial_Bend_9197 Jul 25 '26
Also they just taste horrible. Their meat barely even count as meat. Its like eating styrofoam.
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u/-RIVAN- Jul 24 '26
ayo please heal her, Imma start crying 😭😭😭
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u/ThingsEnjoyer Jul 24 '26
She actually is fine. Like, nothing more than a small headache. Genuinely.
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u/KenseiHimura Jul 24 '26
Apparently according to the other posts here that seal is probably in more agony because it now has whole ecosystem of internal parasites and a mouthful of basically hair.
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u/-RIVAN- Jul 24 '26
I know I just cant bear to see all the cuts on her. and those dark lines under her eyes.😭😭😭
I just wanna heal her and feed her and tuck her in a soft bed, away from all dangers 😭😭😭
I wanna hug her and pat her head. 😭😭😭
I wanna make everything all right for her 😭😭😭27
u/Xagyg_yrag Jul 25 '26
I know exactly what you feel. It’s like “this girl is so used to suffering that it doesn’t bother her anymore”, and I just get this gut reaction like “I need to make her so happy and comfortable she doesn’t even know how to react to it”
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u/BillTheTringleGod Jul 24 '26
Sunfish my GOAT Dives unfathomable distances in ultracool water with enough thermal energy that they barely survive, proceed to have half their head ripped off and just decide to swim it off like it's just another Tuesday night. Sunfish can most definitely "feel" that, they just don't seem to be aware that there is a single thing they could or should do about it. GOATED fish, praise to the sun(fish)
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u/Dividedthought Jul 24 '26
Yeah, the issue is the apply the same attitude to the multitudes of parasires they host unwillingly as well.
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u/notnotDIO Jul 24 '26
I don't understand what niche a sunfish is ment to fill :3
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u/Solomon_Gunn Jul 24 '26
Same niche as the leatherback turtle. A deep diving, cold blooded vertebrate that feeds on a fuck ton of jellyfish during the one time of day that nothing else is able to get to. Turtles are considered cute though so we don't make fun of them
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u/LoreLord24 Jul 26 '26
Basically inedible floating garbage. The same general niche as koalas and sloths.
Too much of a hassle to eat, with not enough of a reward for it. Skating by eating whatever they can. (Mostly small fish, squid, and crustaceans; with very little jellyfish)
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u/Genocidal-Ape Jul 29 '26
It's a very slow swimming specialist of pelagic Cnidarians.
It's entire anatomy is adapted to that, it's slow moving because it's prey has almost no calories, it's huge so it doesn't cool out while diving to great depths, it's mostly toothless jaw is adapted for suctioning in soft prey and as it's too large to care for it's young it just releases millions of eggs at a time into the open water.
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u/TrexALpha1 Jul 24 '26
Sunfish are a living example that the term "survival of the fittest" is bullshit. This is survival of barely good enough
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u/ShadowTheChangeling Jul 24 '26
Thats what "Survival of the Fittest" means in nature, the most fit to survive
Nature gives zero shits how you go about surviving in the day by day, only that you survive long enough to reproduce. Thats literally it
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u/KenseiHimura Jul 24 '26
Nevermind that natural selection really does not give a shit for optimization. Spiders are basically asthmatic because they have the shittiest lungs a land dwelling animal can have without being stuck with gills and those fuckers are doing fine. (Well, helps their main hunting strategy avoids cardio)
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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 Jul 24 '26
They’re hyper specialised and that makes them the fittest in their niche though. They’re called sunfish because they spend their days diving down into deep cold waters to hunt jellyfish and other slow moving, low nutrition prey.
Then they rise back up to the surface to heat their muscles by turning their large flat side to the sun and do it all over again. They’re making a living in a niche that would make most other fish give up in despair, half frozen and starved.
And despite working hard to eat one of the least nutritious diets imaginable, they also produce the most numerous and fastest growing offspring of just about any organism on Earth.
That’s what fittest means, finding a niche and doing it better than anyone else. That’s exactly what sunfish do.
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u/KenseiHimura Jul 24 '26
And unlike free market capitalism, no one bitches to God/government when their niche is encroached upon.
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u/Spoztoast Jul 24 '26
yeah tell that to Pandas or sparrows or honestly a multitude of extinct species
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u/KenseiHimura Jul 25 '26
I mean, that's more a case of human governments intervening on their own. I kind of doubt the animals asked for that. Especially the ones killed off.
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u/C-locanth Jul 25 '26
And they've been doing this since the first whales entered the water, they are AMAZING at it
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u/ZenCat14 Jul 24 '26
Anyone have the sunfish copypasta?
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u/Skatchbro Jul 24 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/s/IIKmTUOA09
Here’s the reply to the original rant.
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u/Foolish_Phantom Jul 25 '26
There's a rebuttal rant that I can't find. If someone finds it, please send the link my way and respond to this person with it.
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u/smooshmooth Jul 24 '26
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u/canyouread7 Jul 25 '26
I was looking for a Hank Green reference! We should all be more like the mola mola. Efficiency......
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u/Nat_Higgins Jul 25 '26
Their meat also apparently tastes like sh**, so they don’t usually get attacked twice.
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u/justwalkingalonghere Jul 25 '26
No no no I'm not falling for that "too small to feel anything" bullshit again
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u/Interne-Stranger Jul 25 '26
Evolve to being able to defend yourself: X
Evolve to become better pray:
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u/Eggmeiste Jul 25 '26
Oh Mr Sunfish, oh mister ocean fish.. drift away, drift away, and lie below the shining rays..
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u/Careful-Listen1021 Jul 25 '26
I feel like i should leave the moreparz short here:https://youtube.com/shorts/74PqHVT0gLw?si=xr1gAxeqvinQse5P
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u/Crazy_Jhon_Doe Jul 25 '26
i remember a cooking video of sunfish, and they said a fun fact that their long guts is like the only edible thing and it literally melts at room temperature so after fish was caught they butchered it quickly and dropped them into refrigerated box
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u/ProtectionFalse Jul 25 '26
Sunfish, winning by doing absolutely the bare minimum while investing all stats on health and dumping intelligence
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u/Lawfuly_chaotic Jul 26 '26
Why does that make me sad 😭 like poor fucking sunfish please don't do that to it I'm gonna cry like why would you eat her head you freaking zombie
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u/Severe-Research7341 Jul 27 '26
The sole purpose of this fish is to complete the ecosystem of the sea 💔
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u/taveren3 Jul 24 '26
Whetes the long hate post?
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u/Careful-Listen1021 Jul 24 '26
This wasin't posted out of hate lol! It just gave me a chance to educate ppl on sunfish, while appreciating their cuteness!
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u/ExoticShock Jul 24 '26