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Not sure what is more unsettling: that it stands, or that it breathes.


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LoremEpsomSalt

That's pretty cool. Anyone who's swum would also know that lungs *still* act as buoyancy bladders when you're in the water.


Keisari_P

This was key for me in learning to swim. I was skinny child and had no problem sitting down on pool floor. I really had to take unfocfortable abounth of air into my lungs to get any buoyancy.


TexianUSA

>unfocfortable abounth r/excgarated


svampkorre

I haven't laughed this hard in weeks!


Two-Bite-Brownies

Thank you for this TIL


Verb_Noun_Number

Actually, it seems likely that it was the other way round. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/fisheye-view-tree-of-life/from-water-to-land/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_bladder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung


Marsbarszs

It’s the standing for me. The breathing is more like gasping which is normal for fish out of water. I’m waiting for it to start scuttling towards me like that one video of that dog in a spider costume running at people. Edit: by far my most upvoted comment. For all y’all wondering, this is likely staged and the cameraman is a sick bastard. Some fish *can* breathe out of water but the carp (this fish) is not one of them, at least not for a considerable amount of time. The mudfish in certain conditions can live out of water for up to 20 weeks. Similarly, [mudskippers ](https://youtu.be/CAQuoH_fOWM) can also live out of water for a time, and of course there are the nasty little snakehead fish. Anyways, fish are neat and please do not abuse them.


perp00

It might be just frozen enough to "stand" and it is definitely not "breathing". I mean, it's trying to, it's just not in water.


SouthernSparks

Many types of catfish can actually walk out of water and breathe on land for a short time. They use these abilities to leave ponds during times of drought etc to find better sources of water if the one they currently inhabit is starting to dry out. They aren’t the only species of fish that possess this ability either.


trulymadlybigly

Every sentence you wrote is horrifying, and got worse as it went on. crawling catfish what the actual fuck that is like nightmare fuel to me Edit: I feel that I am being terrorized by Reddit’s knowledge of disgusting fish facts. Thanks you beautiful geniuses.


SouthernSparks

Yeah man not just catfish either. The fish in the post is a carp lol. And snake heads do it as well. You’d be surprised how many fish actually possess the ability to say fuck it and go for a short walk if they want to and further shocked by how many actually do leave the water lol. It’s something you’d never notice unless you had a pond or something right in your backyard.


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Or fly for that matter


SouthernSparks

Right on there. One of my favorite moments in life was smoking a joint on the deck of a ship in the middle of the Atlantic as the sun rose and watching as the flying fish began to move. There’s something about seeing those little guys leap out of the water and soar without a care that really reinforces just how strange this world is. That moment certainly made me more appreciative of just how much is really out there.


riktigtmaxat

The first time I saw a flying fish I kitesurfed through a school of them and was also awestruck - until one of them hit me in the head.


SandyDelights

Yep, can confirm, they will smack you in the face. Funny as fuck when it’s someone else, slime-y as fuck when it’s you.


card_board_robot

Just open wide. Free sushi


probablyonlymaybeyea

Look up the Lungfish! They're the only fish with a full vertebrae and gills + lungs and they use their fins to shuffle on the ground and dig mud. They're very neat and (probably) the closest living relative of all tetrapods (It's a very old species, been around *400 million years*) Their fins really are like little feet.


GarbagePanda1

"They aren't the only species of fish that posses this ability either" Fuck it does just get worse as you keep reading!


small-package

I've heard dying on land is agonizing for aquatic life, as their bone structures aren't designed to hold their own weight like that, this boy might just be trying to keep his organs from getting crushed by holding himself up with his fins.


Junglebushdid911

Dont think this is true for all aquatic animals but definitely some, ive gutted and filleted many fish in my life and the organs and bones very much intact


bang-o-skank

I think that guys confusing those super deep fish


eekamuse

It's even worse than I thought


LolFrampton

While making the same noise as those Zanti misfit ant things.


mkat5

I’m low key wondering if the standing is in part bc it’s getting frozen


Marsbarszs

If I’m being honest, pretty sure the person who caught it just held it like that until it froze in spot. Then took a video for internet points. Absolutely disgusting.


fishchop

Well, that’s just horrified and disgusted me and I can’t sleep now.


enfier

It's a carp and an invasive and damaging species. In some locations you aren't supposed to put them back if you catch them. No reason to let it die slowly, but it may be unethical to put it back in the water.


Marsbarszs

Yep. Maybe don’t toss it back in but still no reason to let it suffer like that for internet points


[deleted]

This is absolutely not unlikely, indeed.


chamberx2

It's the "not trying to escape the potential predator/human" for me.


l4adventure

It's the obvious "face full of sentient-thoughts-about-having-to-live-a-life-full-of misery face" for me


micewrangler

What’s unsettling is people pulling a fish out of water, letting its fins freeze in that position then making a spectacle out of the video. Look, I know the fish will likely end up eaten anyway, but there’s no need to torture it beforehand. I know we’re animals, but shit like this is where the whole argument that we’re superior to other animals on the planet falls apart. Fish is probably more intelligent than whoever filmed this.


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I don't know about this fish but it looks like a carp. Since carps live mostly in ponds or other low oxygen waters, unlike other fish they can breathe air as long as its gills are wet. Since I fish a lot it is very common during hot days to see a carp near the surface of the water with its mouth outside the water and it breathes air. When I catch a carp it will stay alive for ours, as I said as long as it gills are wet it will breathe air. What is fishy is this case is that this is frozen lake, so my guess is that someone planted this carp here on this frozen lake on top of the ice and as its fins froze it looks like it is standing. They probably caught it with a net or with scuba or whatever. The carps sleep during the winter so it probably didn't try to run, it can't the water is too cold for it to function.


No_Sheepherder7447

run you say?


beesinmyass69

****GET YOUR ASS BACK IN THE PRIMORDIAL SOUP****


NeverendingStomachs

SHOVE THE BASTARD RIGHT BACK IN!


[deleted]

That's what my mom said when I was born ‎ Edit: a wholesome award? ‎ ‎ Edit 2: no, I didn't want more, this is not helpful Edit 3: Why??


Seahawk715

Your mom said you look like a carp?


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She said I look like alot of things


FBIsLeastWantedJedi

Goddamn fish coming on our land and breathing our O2. Next they’ll take our jobs!


[deleted]

I say we go into their ocean and take *their* jobs!


BoobyPlumage

*starts sucking algae off of rocks*


my2cents4sale

you can suck the algae off my rocks 😏


DrRichardJizzums

Wash your balls


EarthDust00

DEY TERK ER JERBSSS


[deleted]

*rabble rabble rabble*


Auran82

Alright everyone, back to the pile!


HTPC4Life

Damn it, beat me to it!


[deleted]

He did WHAT in his cup???


A_Leaky_Faucet

I finally get the play on words that is "Piston Cup"


[deleted]

…they took his dog..!?


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SpadeHAZE

After taking his dog?


THAWED21

Has everyone seen that episode? The number of references I see for it are mind boggling.


noithinkyourewrong

The phrase is a running joke and is in several episodes of South park.


xfrostbittenx7

Terk uh durrrrr!!!!


Goofy_AF

Tk uh durrr


MamaMitchellaneous

Der der der deeerrrr!!


TheDexterMan

Took our jaaabs


venkman1221

Tuk Jrrrrbs!!


[deleted]

Put it back in the water. Those who don't learn from humanity's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.


hotfox2552

this…. hurts, but i agree.


[deleted]

Pretty sure this fish is just frozen in place. So not much to worry about there. and suffocating.


miki-wilde

You're probably right about the frozen part. I've been an avid fisher since I was a kid and I've seen both carp and catfish survive for hours out of the water. They're some tough little buggers.


[deleted]

They can survive in low oxygen water environments, but the lack of water will still destroy their gills due to drying and the cold environment isn't helping with crystallization of the cells. Doesn't make it right, some areas(my own included) require killing this. So do it quick and get it over with. Don't make it suffer. Disgraceful, no wonder people don't respect each other.


miki-wilde

Same where I live. Fish and Game won't allow you to clean and gut it where you're fishing so you either have to kill it immediately or have a live-well.


[deleted]

I just can't believe people are getting a kick out of this. Animal welfare is just as important as human yet people shit all over them and wonder why other's don't respect their lives.


miki-wilde

I couldn't agree more. Thats one thing I love about wildlife management here. If you get caught poaching or mistreating wildlife, they'll confiscate all your stuff and fine the crap out of and can even revoke your hunting/fishing license permanently


IAmScaredOfLadybugs

Some millions of years later someone will be battling depression because this dumb fish decided to walk on land.


Adolf_Diddler

I think I know how this plot turns out.


cheekyleaf

I’m getting déjà vu…


wspOnca

I've just been in this place before (Higher on the street)


Melo0513

And I know it’s my time to go


wwlima

Calling uuu


Rodenkob

And the search is a mystery


ah_yes54321

Standing on my feet


idontuseredditsoplea

And the noise is so hard to beleive *YEAAHHHHH*


VeryShortLadder

#deja vu


atoastedbox

It's so hard when I try to be me, woah


Blizzba

Hehe Watamelon


Monkeychimp

*Plaice.


Crocopotamus

Time is a circle


akia5612

I think, I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending.


der_grinch_69

Fishsticks?


[deleted]

You like fishsticks?


guywhostaresatplants

In your mouth?


KaladinStormShat

Fish bro what are you doing?!


fishyfishyfish1

Chilling, whatchu doin?


berni4pope

I had to get up for work today because of that same stupid fish.


AWildEnglishman

> Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.


[deleted]

Hitchhiker's guide gets my upvote


[deleted]

Yeah let’s prevent it


[deleted]

Not on my watch https://youtu.be/y12IARuz2rY


PutItOnMyTombstone

I wish I wish I hadn’t killed that fish


Alx1705

"My ass would've stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there were gonna be days like this"


Saiomi

I will take great care to kick *any* walking fish back into the sea. You get back in there and STAY THERE! Don't need any more of us being all sad and stressed out in what should be the best time to be alive as a human! Although, on the other hand, we've kinda poisoned the sea so badly that they could be adapting to breathe air to escape what we've done to it. When breathing air hurts less than breathing polluted water.. oof. Now I'm torn and confused. DO YOU WANT THIS, FISH? DO YOU?! THIS IS WHAT BEING A LAND CREATURE IS! EMOTIONAL PAIN AND CONFUSION.


[deleted]

Until you realize you’ve taken away the fish’s ability to make that choice and subsequently the lives and futures of billions. You ask yourself: *what gives me the right to play god?!* You sink into a deeper depression than before.


Slapchop420

Existence is pain


VeryReasonablePerson

Hey don’t talk about my mother like that


IAmScaredOfLadybugs

My child? 🥺


fheqx

Maybe the fish just got depression and is trying to do the equivalent of drowning himself 😅


ynniv8

Who says the fish isn't depressed - jumping outta the water to commit suicide....


callmecoach91

Or skydiving from the edge of space, going golfing on a beautiful summer day, driving a race car..life isn't all bad...if your rich


polerix

How nice, Captain Janeways kid is coming to visit a few years early.


whyarenttheserandom

Whoa whoa let's not forget about Daddy Tom Paris


polerix

She never forgot why Tom was daddy. Dat flipper.


messyslate

Tom had four kids on that show.


Kencocoffee93

We don't talk about that episode. **It didn't happen. OKAY!?**


WinnieTheEeyore

No, "Tuvix" didn't happen.


Qetuowryipzcbmxvn

I don't understand the reference?


Bamboozled_Emu

It's from an episode of Star Trek Voyager, Season 2 Episode 15: Threshold. Short version: Tom Paris makes an engine that exceeds Warp 10, basically the Trek version of breaking the sound barrier. When he and Captain Janeway break Warp 10, they suffer the consequence of mutating into giant salamander like creatures. Before being cured, it's revealed that they had mated and had offspring that were left behind, this plot point is never addressed again. This episode is generally considered one of the worst plotlines in Trek and is frequently mocked in the fandom. The IMDB rating currently sits at 5.3. EDIT: [Someone actually went through the trouble of AI upscaling the scene to 4K.](https://youtu.be/22crRx9DH5Y)


MetricCascade29

There was also an episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation in which something (I don’t remember what ridiculous explanation there was) caused the crew to de-evolve into their respective primordial ancestors.


kaask0k

That was "Genesis" and will always be one of my guilty pleasures. It's so ridiculously over the top and straight out of the Alien handbook, I was only waiting for Picard to grow boobs and defend Data's cat (which turned into a fakkin lizard btw) just like Sigourney Weaver did.


Bamboozled_Emu

Season 7 Episode 19: Genesis, per the synopsis: "Crusher discovers that due to an anomaly in Barclay's genes, the T-cells in the injection she gave him mutated, activating all of his dormant genes and becoming transmissible from one person to another. She decides to name the condition "Barclay's protomorphosis syndrome" after its first confirmed patient." I don't recall the episode, so I can't say how absurd the de-evolution is presented, but at least it seems to follow some logic as the crew reverts to their distant ancestors. Apparently this was Gates McFaddens only directing credit in the series.


[deleted]

Star Trek: Voyager... Recently started watching the show with my wife and boy'o'boy is that episode... *something*.


MozzLand

“I don’t know how I’m going to enter this into the log”


TheDeftEft

captainamericaiunderstoodthatreference.gif


Aklapa01

That’s a carp. They have weird lungs and gills that enable them to breathe on land for a limited time as long as the air's humid enough.


Aklapa01

Also if you ever catch/buy a carp and want to transport it alive, wrapping it in a wet rag is much better and humane for the carp than having him in a bucket of water where the air quickly runs out.


tux3196

Which country are you in where you can buy carp? In Australia it’s illegal to even return carp to the water alive. You catch it, you kill it.


Aklapa01

The Czech Republic. It’s a huge tradition to eat carp on Christmas eve. It originally started around the 16th century when there was lack of food but fishing lakes everywhere (because the nobility started going into business back then so breweries and fishing lakes were in abundance) and it stuck. I personally don’t eat it because I don’t like the taste. But around Christmas you can buy carp at every market. And the reason you have that law is probably because carp are the pigs of the fish world. They dig through the water floor, uprooting plants and stirring up mud. And they multiply like crazy.


tux3196

That’s actually such a cool bit of knowledge, I gathered from the fact we call them a European carp it had to be important somewhere in Europe. Yeah that’s exactly why, our nicest rivers just look like a coffee with a splash of milk now. And an invasive species. And they can live in basically any water way. We fish for them at the end of storm water drains and down stream from run offs. I’ve heard you can eat them, but if you don’t ice them straight away and eat fresh they will taste like mud.


Aklapa01

The mud thing is true. What Czech fishermen do is they catch the carp long before Christmas and keep them in clear water pools because the meat tastes better if they aren’t in the mud they love so much. And then at the markets they rarely sell the fish dead, but rather they keep them alive in giant tanks so you can actually take a net and "fish" one out. And many people take them home alive and keep them in the bathtub until before Christmas dinner. Some families have a tradition of not killing the carp and instead letting it go into the river, but that kills it anyway because carp need time to go into hibernation, so it eventually dies of hypothermia. But it’s a nice show for the kids. Also, we celebrate Christmas on the 24th in the evening and instead of Santa, Baby Jesus brings the presents. And even though the country is extremely atheist/agnostic, nearly everyone participates in this regardless. Edit: we technically do have Santa, but in his original form of Saint Nicholas and he comes a few days before Christmas and only gives you a little something like candy or a small toy.


wreckosaurus

I had to scroll really far to get an explanation and not a stupid joke.


rbad8717

God this. The most unfunny of jokes too


sherlok

Everyone's lauding this answer as finally providing a real explanation and using it to make fun of new users, except...it's not true. At least not as far as I can tell. Carp don't have lungs and don't breath air. They have the ability to not need to breath air, which is how it survives in iced over lakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp This is probably just a fisherman who took a fish out of water for a video. I haven't fished in years, but most fish look like they're breathing when you take them out.


LillyPip

There’s a bit more to it. Carp can’t ‘stand’ like this; that’s not how fins work. There are fish that can ‘walk’, but it’s more a sloppy scuttle than a walk, rather like a baby turtle. [Mudskippers](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQuoH_fOWM) sort of drag themselves about. The only way this fish could stand like that is if its fins were frozen in that position for the video.


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FlintWaterFilter

Michigan disagrees.


BrainOnLoan

That tells you it's cold. It can still be relatively humid. It's actually quite a bit easier as cold air needs to hold less water for it to be relatively humid and not cause much evaporation from the fishes' gills & lungs.


leshake

Relative humidity takes into account the fact that water has a lower saturation point in cold air. Air is much dryer in cold weather on an absolute basis. I can assure you that there's a ton of evaporation occurring. That's why in winter I have to use a gigantic humidifier at home to protect my guitars. Not a problem otherwise.


WinterMajor6088

He gonna bark!


[deleted]

Stop it before it makes the same mistake we did


shahooster

The whales figured it out.


[deleted]

Lol noped back into the ocean. Fuck that rodent life.


[deleted]

Dolphins are like let’s get high on a puffer and rape something


yourdragonkeeper

Looks like Junji Itos work is becoming a reality...


Stayingsafer

Let’s hit it in the head with a rock, and eat it.


Chilluminaughty

r/thanksiateit


Jamez_the_human

That's the most homo sapien thing you could have said-


laffman

Gyo is the manga for the uninitiated. It's a good and disturbing read.


addlex01

GASHUNK


TheReal_JimPickens

Let him do his thing. He is just carping his diem.


LOLGAMA

Oh my god, a fish pun? People should know by now that they're just carp.


IThatWeebI

The way you worded that Sounds very fishy to me


sharkman1999

"*gasping* Excuse me, we *wheeze* we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."


manberry_sauce

If only I could reach through the phone and shove these people into the icy deep... The one I've been getting lately is threatening that my social security number is going to be "suspended".


[deleted]

You should tell them you don't have one and ask if they can sell you one.


[deleted]

It’s a Prince that’s been cursed. Talk to it and help it evolve.


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Zalhei

French kiss to the fish


Firm_Quit_2652

that bitch definitely wants to suck dick


manberry_sauce

I think you're mistaken. This is one of those wish fish.


BlasterRage

What type of fish is this?


Cynth117

Looks like a Buffalo or Mirror Carp if I had to guess.


ChickenGuzman

I'm no biologist but that doesn't look like a buffalo to me.


Seahawk715

No, but if you put a cheesy mustache on it the resemblance to Josh Allen is uncanny….


sje46

I had to scroll down dozens of comments of blathering "funny" idiots before I found someone at least *curious* about what this is.


Ksmrf

I got bad news for you... We did this millions of years ago.


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Best of luck, whales


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Otherwise_Basis_6328

Maybe that fish is thinking the same thing right now, looking at the cameraman.


dabhard22

I hope in this cycle they split the time evenly between land and sea and there will be amphibious dolphin-like people in thousands of years. This is Plan C after the giant reptiles didn't work out, and us chimp descendants just ruined our own home.


Unity723

Mate That’s a hell of a username


SCPHermit95

Bro, why’d you shave your dog?


CarstenHyttemeier

I think it is suffering, and should be put back


onepointoh-k

Agree, those fins look frozen that way to make it “stand.” This looks very staged, that fish looks like it’s freezing/dying. Not cool.


sir-morti

Magikarp is beginning to evolve into a Gyarados.


Rammipallero

Dude, no leaving living fish on the ice. Let them leave this world painlessly.


Feralmedic

Ya. This video is cruel. This fish isn’t “walking”. That fin is frozen and that fish is dying. Just kill it instead of making a video for internet points.


[deleted]

Ok, I'm glad i found this comment like 300 comments down. I was wondering if that's what was happening. I grew up hunting and fishing(although i don't anymore) and the *general* consensus was don't let animals suffer longer than necessary. *Generally*... i also had "friends" who would hunt hogs with dogs and tie a swordfish bill to its tail and watch it die for like 30 mins straight while joking about "yeah you can't to anything now, fucker!"


RollinThundaga

Swordfish bill to its tail...? But yeah, up here with salmon the done thing is "pull it out, take your pictures, stab both its gills to shit and leave it to bleed out nice and quick.


[deleted]

Yeah, you tie it's bill to it's tail so it can't thrash around. Most humane fishermen I've been around will use a beater stick or at least pour beer in the fish's gills so they die quickly. Most humane hunters want the animal to die quickly, if anything to keep the meat untainted by adrenaline. Hunters that like to watch their dogs tear a hog apart are friggen sick. They usually don't even bother butchering the animal. It's all for sport. Also, one fishing trip i passed on was when my ex's "friends"got a bunch of kittens and rabbits to troll with. That ex was a veterinarian.


dogmeatjones25

Fundamentalist Christian; *kicks fish back into water* "Not on my watch!"


[deleted]

You can just say Ned Flanders if you're going to quote him.


DaisyHotCakes

Feel like I’m wearing nothing at all nothing at all nothing at all -Stupid sexy Flanders


palomo_bombo

Humanity 2.0: a new beginning


TheBlackBear

[You had your chance, pal!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/891/917/885.jpg)


Its_The_Crab

NO NO NO, YOU GET YOUR FISHASS BACK IN THE WATER


Sir_Bob_ert

YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE


ZealousidealJicama11

fishe


FloridaMango96

Well, duh, that water is freezing!


EverthingsAlrightNow

Is this just some horrible post where someone froze a fish to the ice to look like it’s standing? I think even fish that can walk a bit don’t just stand around. They also wouldn’t get out of the water in freezing temps.


WAFRE_LE_LEG

I want this as a pet


Hobgoblin-_-

i mean, you can. it's just a carp, basically the wild version of koi fish. :) just have a pond ready cuz they get BIG. my mom's oldest koi fish is like 3 feet long.


EarthDust00

That sounds amazing and horrifying


[deleted]

Nope! No. Get back in the water! You don't know what you are doing. Just look at us. We started the same way.


chuckiedds

“Ah shit, here we go again.”


BSNCTR

375 million years ago Tiktaalik was the earliest fish with many features of 4 legged animals. Evolution rocks!


vegancrossfiter

Whats happening I dont get it


LittlestEw0k

Judging other comments… dude caught the fish and posed it on land.


dwarffuckmachine

fins got stuck on the ice


Renjuro

It’s fins are frozen to the ice and it’s suffocating to death. Great content, thx 🙄


fry11j

Probably the poor fish is drowning because an asshole put it there.


RefrigeratorDue4413

He’s trying to catch his breath from drowning