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American scientists were lucky to find a unique warm-blooded fish. They didn’t take time and immediately started its study. Of course, the final research results will not appear soon. However, we can safely say now that these unique fish due to their distinctive features make a worthy competition to other ocean predators the depths.
As the researchers managed to find out, they caught a fish that dubbed Moonfish (i.e. moonfish), capable of keep your body temperature high by analogy with birds and mammals. It is noteworthy that the researchers found their find ocean depths made off the coast of California. Exactly at This area has recently been caught many unique representatives of the water world.
The so-called moon fish generate heat with swings of the chest fins. As for maintaining the temperature of the body, then not only the fat layer is responsible for it, but also an unusual system blood vessels, which is located in the gills. It is this nuance, According to American scientists, allows lunar fish to survive in aggressive environment of the ocean.
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An interesting fact is that the temperature regime of the body of the lunar fish exceeds by as much as 5 ° the temperature regime of the water itself, in which it dwells. In this case, the body temperature of the vast majority of fish fully coincides with the temperature of the depths of the ocean. But some large representatives of the ocean depths, such as tuna and sharks, tend to from time to time increase the temperature in their the muscles. They do this in the process of hunting.
True, then they return to warm waters, and their temperature body bounces back.
Lunar fish live at great depths (50-200 meters), where water temperature does not exceed 10 ° C. At the same time they eat small fish, squid and other cephalopods. IN the length of such fish grows to a maximum of 2 meters. And the largest an individual weighs about 270 kilograms.
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