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I hope you are all enjoying the start of your week.\u00a0 Yesterday, I went a little more domestic with Wild Facts by talking about dogs.\u00a0 I had a lot of fun with that post and had a lot of interesting questions. As much fun as it was, I have decided to make today’s post about an animal that is a little more wild. Today we are going to talk about a deep sea creature so you know it will be interesting.<\/p>\n

The coffinfish is in the same family as the Anglerfish.\u00a0 Remember this is the fish that uses a glowing lure to attract its prey. You don’t remember? Really because we talked about it.\u00a0 Okay, I will post the link to that Wild Fact here<\/a>.\u00a0 You can go and refresh your memory but you have to promise to come back to today’s Fact.<\/p>\n

Welcome back! There is not a lot of information out on the coffinfish since it spends the majority of its time sitting on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Although, they are common, we don’t spend much time on the ocean floor. Occasionally they will get caught in nets and brought to the surface.\u00a0 When this happens the coffinfish will be a big round ball.\u00a0 Why you ask? The coffinfish shares a trait similar to the pufferfish.\u00a0 They are able to take in water and blow up their body as a self-defense mechanism.\u00a0 This method protects them as it is more difficult for other predators to eat a swollen fish. Heck, I have a hard time eating sushi if the piece is too big.\u00a0 Although, I blame the chopsticks for that!<\/p>\n

Although their defense mechanism is awesome, the coolest thing about the coffinfish is the fact that they can walk along the ocean floor.\u00a0 You read that right!\u00a0 This is a fish that is able to walk. For some reason, I keep picturing that old evolution cartoon with the fish walking out of the water and eventually turning into a man. Obviously the coffinfish doesn’t have legs like we do but they do have tiny leg-like fins that are capable of walking. How weird would it be if you caught a coffinfish and it managed to walk off the boat.\u00a0 I know that would surprise the heck out of me!<\/p>\n

Well, that is all for today’s fact!\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed learning about another unique deep sea creature.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope you are all enjoying the start of your week.\u00a0 Yesterday, I went a little more domestic with Wild Facts by talking about dogs.\u00a0 I had a lot of fun with that post and had a lot of interesting questions. As much fun as it was, I have decided to make today’s post about an animal that is a little more wild. Today we are going to talk about a deep sea creature so you know it will be interesting. The coffinfish is in the same family as the Anglerfish.\u00a0 Remember this is the fish that uses a glowing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4024],"tags":[348,435,437,436,4116,4025,4027,258],"yoast_head":"\n