Fish Are a Noisy Bunch

Most people aren't aware of this, but the ocean is actually a noisy place, because its inhabitants are a noisy bunch:

For most fish, the sonic mechanism is a muscle that vibrates a swim bladder not unlike our vocal cord. The bladder is a gas-filled sac used for buoyancy, but it can also be used as a sort of drum. The Gulf toadfish contracts its sonic muscle against its swim bladder thousands of times a minute to generate a loud drone. At nearly three times the average wingbeat of a hummingbird, toadfish have the fastest known muscle of any vertebrate. Cusk eel rattle bones against their bladder, but clownfish have a sonic ligament they use to “chirp.”

Link | Listen to the fishies (don't miss the wonderful humming of the toad fish!)


So Mitch Hedburg was right after all. 'If fish could talk the ocean would be loud as sh*t!'

Also I want a vending machine that dispenses vending machines.
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Every time I think fish couldn't POSSIBLY get any more horrifying, along comes some new little tidbit of information I didn't need in my head ... the thought of fish producing sound somehow makes my brain want to squirm away and find someplace safe to hide. *laugh* Why isn't anybody DOING anything about this - they must be stopped!
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