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Biologists record the machine-gun sound of the loudest known fish
Washington Post ^
| December 19, 2017
| Ben Guarino
Posted on 12/20/2017 7:54:42 AM PST by C19fan
Each year between February and June, the fish gather to spawn in Mexico's Colorado River Delta. The fish, a type of croaker called the Gulf corvina, meet in water as cloudy as chocolate milk. It's a reunion for the entire species, all members of which reproduce within a dozen-mile stretch of the delta.
When the time is right, a few days before the new or full moons, the male fish begin to sing.
To humans, the sound is machine guns going off just below the waterline. To female fish, the rapid burr-burr-burr is a Bing Crosby croon. Make that Bing cranked up to 11.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: fish
The hotel neighbor keeping you up all night with the squeaking bed and other sounds.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:54:42 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
We have croakers here in Gulf Coast Florida, but they ain’t THAT loud!...................
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:03:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: C19fan
The fish with the machine gun IS the big fish in the pond.
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:10:57 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
We have croakers here in Gulf Coast FloridaWe call them 'recently departed' here...
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:15:31 AM PST
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(If we're going to look at nature to justify our actions, then I say let's start flinging poop around)
To: C19fan
the sound is machine guns going off just below the waterline.Cross these fish, and you'll end up sleeping with the humans.
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:19:57 AM PST
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: C19fan
They could have gone to Chiraq and saved them selves a lot of money and trouble.
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:24:17 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
To: GreenHornet
Cross these fish, and you'll end up sleeping with the humans.
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posted on
12/20/2017 8:42:54 AM PST
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(If we're going to look at nature to justify our actions, then I say let's start flinging poop around)
To: C19fan
Interesting. A relative of mine is quoted in the story.
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posted on
12/20/2017 11:57:21 AM PST
by
Grammy
(Save the earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
To: seawolf101
crew served AR-15 `Croaker'
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posted on
12/20/2017 6:53:04 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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