What happens when you put a gutted, dead fish back in the water? Posted on 10/05/2017 10:51:07 AM PDT by w1n1
What happens when you put a gutted, dead fish back in the water?
Apparently it swims on its own! Maybe, its like the chicken running around after the head has been chopped off. This video footage of a fish that has been completely gutted and had the meat filleted from its sides and is then dropped back into the water.
It is crazy what happens next.
While this seems completely crazy, there must be a reasonable explanation. Either the fish was not actually dead, and was just quickly gutted while still alive, or like many animals, its body can continue to move in familiar ways after it is killed.
Obviously as an outdoorsman, I am hoping that it is the second of these two explanations. I personally would never want to promote making an animal suffer. If you are going to harvest an animal it should be done in the quickest and cleanest way possible to ensure that the animal does not have to suffer.
If this is a case of the neurons continuing to fire after the fish dies (think chicken with its head cut off), then it is actually really neat that it was able to be captured on film. This would mean that the fish is already completely dead and feels nothing. See the zombie fish video here.
We used to gut the fish we speared at the water’s edge, then stick them back on the spear and prop the spear over a fire. The freshest fish imaginable — a minute from alive in the ocean to dead on a spit.
None of them moved after we gutted them.
I could see a fish doing that soon after it’s been gutted, but not after it’s been filleted. That makes no sense to me.
Like a headless chicken running around - the nerves are still operating.
Who sits around thinking this stuff up? Kinda like who was the first one to get the idea in his head to lick the back of a particular frog to get a buz?
a frog could have accidentally landed in the mouth of a native- or crawled across some food or something- and the native got buzzed-
The secretions were only on its back.
Obviously never cleaned a snapping turtle. Those suckers could walk around headless for 30 minutes.
Good old Calsportsman with another sicko video.
I’m sure the secretions drip- or a native could have once caught a from, then eaten something later and gotten the poison in mouth- the point is that it doesn’t have to mean a native saw a frog and though it would be cool to lick it=-
whatever
lol you betcha!
Wow, was I doing it wrong.
Salt in the water firing off the nerves. Every put salt on frogs legs before you cook them? Kick like the Rockettes. That’s all that’s happening here. The remaining nerves are reacting to the salt water and firing off the remaining muscle tissue.
I’ve seen that when my grandfather filleted sunfish and bluegills. They would twitch like they were swimming. It was weird then, it’s weird now.
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