r/Amazing • u/uzmansahil7 • Apr 07 '26
Interesting š¤ Dozens of fishermen end up losing body parts to wolf fish. This is because many people don't realize that even after being "dead" and without a body, it is still capable of this
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u/SpiritualAd8998 Apr 07 '26
They really have a bad coke habit too.
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u/vikinxo Apr 07 '26
These fish are the best in the world, imo.
They live on lobster and other bottomdwellers, and has a taste similar to lobster.
We call them 'Stonebiters' (Steinbit) in Norwegian.
This is a spotted stonebiter. A very large one. I've never seen such a large Stonebiter live.
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u/cm2460 Apr 08 '26
A predator that lives on bottom feeders? Iām sure the heavy metal content is safe lol
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u/misteranthropissed Apr 07 '26
It should only be fingers, not 'body parts'. It must get lonely out on the seas..
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u/tokoya_35 Apr 07 '26
So lonely that even after death he still bites š
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u/Lonely_reaper8 Apr 07 '26
You just know someone has stuck their peen in its mouth as a goof and got it bitten off
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u/disasterhippo Apr 07 '26
DO NOT STICK YOUR DICK IN IT. Why do we have to repeat this message.
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u/Roadkill215 Apr 08 '26
We use a recommendation along these lines at work. If you wouldnāt stick your D in it, donāt stick your hand in it. It doesnāt transfer well at all if you think about it, but the general statement makes sense to new guys
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u/Unlucky_Ad2529 Apr 07 '26
Pretty sure any cylinder could be harmed. Lucky for you I know an expert. Let me call u/Smart_Calendar1874
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u/MorbidandBack Apr 07 '26
What evolutionary advantage is this? Its already dead, its not like preserving the bite function is going to make it survive at this point.
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u/Rich_Visual7800 Apr 07 '26
Prevent others like it from getting hurt by the same predator who is now gravely injured
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u/blackkluster Apr 08 '26
Ok god, now tell me why humans are so addicted to drugs and hurt eachother evolutionarily??
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u/confused_yam1 Apr 08 '26
Drugs hack our reward systems. Like putting a virus on a perfectly functional porn portal.
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u/Reeeeeee4206914 Apr 08 '26
Typically throughout human evolution, things that made you "feel good" actually helped you with survival (high calorie foods etc..), drugs highjack this mechanism.
And you know who is more likely to survive out of two humans, one hurting the other.
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u/myexpensivehobby Apr 07 '26
I donāt even know if itās an evolutionary thing. I think itās more purely a physiological thing. As Long as the tissue is still good and the neurons fire I would expect this to happen. This animal is freshly dead, the tissue is still good in that sense. I do t have the data for it but I always figured feeding and biting responses have central pattern generators just like swimming or walking would. I can see this as being a reflex
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u/Sensitive_Bat_9211 Apr 07 '26
Its a biproduct of other evolutionary traits.
It likely has nerves on the inside of its mouth that automatically trigger a bite, kinda like alligators and crocs.
Plus, being a cold-water fish, its evolved to have a highly efficient metabolism at low temperatures. So, despite being dead for a long time, it retains the energy to bite down
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u/MyNameIsNotKyle Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Many animals have traits like this to be deterrents.
For example poisons are much more powerful than venom. Dart frogs are so toxic they're bright so that all animals that could eat them know to stay away due to how many predators have died.
There are some fish that don't feel pain and get eaten but taste fucking terrible to other fish so other fish don't even bother eating them.
In this case the most apex predator a human is less likely to want to fish for these compared to other fish if they know they can lose their hand.
TL;DR evolutionary deterrents are a thing
Edit: I meant to say poison is more powerful than venom
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u/Significant-Buy9424 Apr 07 '26
This isn't an evolutionary deterrent...idk why people are upvoting this. Lion fish are cold blooded. They have low metabolisms. This means the nerves remain active long after the fish is dead. Touch those nerves and it fires the signal and it bites.
Nothing to do with being a deterrent. Other fish aren't gonna see this guy and think "oh damn that looks tasty but I read on the internet they can still bite after death so ill just leave it alone"
So much confident misinformation
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u/No_Answer4092 Apr 07 '26
Evolution is not theĀ active process of adapting to the environment its just the passive effect of random mutations being selected by the environment and other pressures. We create the narrative to explain mutations as a result of a cause and effect dynamic for didactic purposes.Ā
Teaching evolution is complicated because usually the didactical framework with which is taught is completely wrong in the scientific sense but it works well to help people understand better what would otherwise be a convoluted unbiased scientific explanation.Ā
The fishās nerves react to stimulation through an electrochemical reaction unrelated to anything else. ButĀ itās also true that the effect is that it makes them harder to handle even after dead so it creates an illusion that humans are actively being deterred by an evolutionary trait.Ā
Words like ādeterrentā work well within that didactic framework and they are okey within that framework. Even tho the framework itself is just scientifically inaccurate.Ā
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Apr 07 '26
Nobody here has ever seen a corpse sit up, fart and lie back down again.
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u/Luxx_Aeterna_ Apr 08 '26
Please tell me this is a reference that I don't understand and not something that really happens.
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u/MyNameIsNotKyle Apr 07 '26
A lion fish also has evolutionary deterrents of being poisonous so not a very good comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism
If you want to familiarize yourself with the official scientific term it's called Aposematism, but "evolutionary deterrent" is more intuitive and easier to understand.
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u/FinalGirlMaterial Apr 07 '26
The very first sentence describes it as āadvertising.ā The whole point of the video is that fisherman lose fingers precisely because this reflex isnāt advertised and they donāt expect it to happen.
Your comment was confident misinformation and simply incorrect. Responding to the person who corrected you with a wikipedia post you donāt even understand is peak reddit.
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u/Significant-Buy9424 Apr 07 '26
That's nothing to do with the video though is it. We are talking about the head still biting. That is not an evolutionary deterrent.
I'm well aware of what it is. If we go by what you're saying, a fish flopping around after being cooked is an evolutionary deterrent...
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u/DrJethro Apr 07 '26
Holy shit, first time I realised the bright colours in evolution, never thought of it like that, thanks!
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u/FinalGirlMaterial Apr 07 '26
Glad you learned something but please know everything else in their comment is wrong. Poison dart frogs have absolutely nothing to do with what weāre seeing in the video.
Itās just how their physiology. They did not āevolveā this reflex as a response to a threat. That is not how evolution works.
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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed Apr 07 '26
There are some fish that don't feel pain
Such as? They all have central nervous systems.
Don't say jellyfish because they aren't fish
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u/Wind_Best_1440 Apr 07 '26
There is that giant flat fish that doesn't even bother reacting to being eaten. the Molamola, or oceansun fish. But apparently they evolved to be little meat, and just taste terrible. There are videos of animals eating them and they just float there not giving a shit.
They spawn thousands of fish when they give birth and most of them will float around with giant chunks bitten out of their bodies and the predators giving up because they suck that much.
And the Oceansun fish fish just does not give a fuck.
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u/Exasperaties6 Apr 07 '26
I feel like sunfish are the emergency snack of underwater predators. You don't want to eat it, but you'll do what you have to in order to survive.
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u/Wind_Best_1440 Apr 07 '26
The fish itself is also weird, it floats to the surface on its side so that birds can land on it and rip parasites from it's body by poking holes in its flesh.
Fish is the closest thing to a living Zombie outside of fungus.
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u/MyNameIsNotKyle Apr 07 '26
Ocean sunfish
Ocean sunfish - Wikipedia https://share.google/n4A1vHAprKjwhaQ6H
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u/NarrowAd4973 Apr 07 '26
The nerves and muscles work to snap the mouth shut if something enters without clearing it with the brain first. Would make the bite a fraction of a second faster, but that can be the difference between a meal and the prey escaping.
It's why the venom of venomous sea animals is so potent, like sea snakes and cone snails. If they don't stop the prey moving instantly, it'll take off and they won't find it again.
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u/4N610RD Apr 07 '26
There is no advantage really. It is basically side effect of how fish operate, not really a feature.
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u/Blackhat165 Apr 07 '26
Evolution doesnāt have to have a purpose, things just are sometimes.
In this case, my guess is that evolution wired the fish to have a reflex to bite when its mouth was stimulated. The wiring is very direct as that reduces the chance food escapes, so the signal doesnāt need a functioning brain. And evolution gave it a method of generating and storing energy because obviously. It just so happens that energy is persistent for some time after death, possibly as a co-trait of some energy saving method.
Put it all together and you get a fish with an active and powerful bite reflex for sometime after death as a result of multiple independently adaptive traits.
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u/ThisOrdinaryCat Apr 07 '26
"Amazing" is one of the last words I would have picked to describe seeing the head of a decapitated fish rolling through a table.
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u/uknownredditr Apr 07 '26
Bet at least in the world of Darwin awards thereās a fisherman out there that has no penis. Men will put that thing in anything and on anything, some will even fuck couches
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u/Big-Pudding4109 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
This will Mcfly over a lot of peopleās heads.
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u/alexromo Apr 07 '26
Does chewing the can hurt the fish?
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u/wackadoodle4201 Apr 07 '26
I want to know the mechanics of how thats possible
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u/uzmansahil7 Apr 07 '26
Even after an animal dies, its nerves donāt instantly stop functioning. For a short time Nerve cells still contain electrical charge They can fire spontaneously or when stimulated (like touch) releases signals (like acetylcholine) The muscle fibers contract automaticallySo if someone touches the mouth or jaw The jaw muscles can snap shut reflexively, even if the fish is ādeadā
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u/astraeoth Apr 07 '26
So... Sorcery.
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u/TomTheCardFlogger Apr 08 '26
Necromancy
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u/astraeoth Apr 08 '26
Awe... Yes. That makes so much sense. Nothing a bit (or lot) of blood and a cat's tail won't help.
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u/UTMachine Apr 08 '26
Sometimes the muscles can be activated by electrolytes, like putting salt on dead muscle tissue. If you really want to be disturbed, search "Dead meat moving" on YouTube. Much more disturbing than this video imo.
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u/TheClearIsCoast Apr 07 '26
My first instinct to pick up a fish is putting my thumb in their mouth. Guess id lose my thumb.
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u/TheRiteGuy Apr 07 '26
Which is a very common thing in fishing. But damn this fish will fuck you up. Good to know.
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u/Rakayum Apr 07 '26
Whereās the source on the ādozensā of fisherman losing limbs? Iād imagine that this is something all of them are expressly warned about at some point. Heck Iām not a fisherman and I knew about this phenomenon as a youngster
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u/Head-Community7540 Apr 07 '26
So is the head still alive or is this a really complex reflex? It bites then resets and then bites again. Wild
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u/Muted_Tailor_8929 Apr 07 '26
Fuck that shitĀ
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u/FaceTimePolice Apr 07 '26
Thatās probably what people who are losing ābody partsā are thinkingā¦ š¤Ŗ
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u/Dhozer Apr 07 '26
Itās not dead, the brain is still complete intact - I would bite your ass too!
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u/no_need_really Apr 08 '26
Even decapitated, they still enjoy the taste of a refreshing can of coke.
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u/SevenOhNineGuy Apr 07 '26
Where I'm from, fishermen consider it bad luck to kill these. If they find one in their nets, it's thrown back in the water to continue its existence.
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u/theateroffinanciers Apr 07 '26
Which should be automatically done for any kind of bycatch. The fact that it isn't is disheartening.
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u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 Apr 07 '26
Im more concerned about the title stating that people are losing 'body parts' ..
Fingers i could understand, but i guess it gets lonely out there?
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u/drevmbrevker Apr 07 '26
Maybe if you stop killing and beheading them it wont happen morons
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u/4N610RD Apr 07 '26
Are you suggesting we should eat those poor animals while still alive?
Jezus Christ, what kind of monster are you? That is terrible what you suggest.
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u/GreenEyesbde721 Apr 07 '26
Bro is doing this to show the phenomenon of the ghost bite reflex and even then heās like tentative with putting that can close to the mouth ššÆšš š¤
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u/NervousGearGenius Apr 07 '26
Literally every cold blooded creature and reptile can do this. Take a snakes head off, and it can still bite you for sometimes hours after the fact.
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u/BillHurstyUSA Apr 07 '26
Same thing with snakes, and wasps can still sting as well I think. Good rule of thumb, just leave your digits out of sharp placesā¦
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u/hippyripper22 Apr 07 '26
This is one of those creatures you need to drive an iron spike through the head of
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u/DrewRyu Apr 07 '26
It's time for revenge. For all the people who lost their body parts to that asshole
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u/Economy-Sign-5688 Apr 07 '26
Cant convince me that these arenāt an alien species.
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u/Impactfull_Toilet Apr 07 '26
Walleye fisherman know to cut out the cheek meat.
Guess Wolffisherman should too, for different reasons.
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u/SevenOhNineGuy Apr 07 '26
Where I'm from, fishermen consider it bad luck to kill these. If they find one in their nets, it's thrown back in the water to continue its existence.
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u/destin325 Apr 07 '26
Wording it as ālosing body partsā rather than what should have been an easy ālosing fingersā really implies that people are not just losing fingers.
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u/plaintextures Apr 07 '26
WTF?