Comment on salmon
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months agoOh no, they change that much and sometimes even more. The hump is a sexual selection trait - the bigger the hump, the more likely it is that a male will get to mate. While not all pink salmon get a hump that large, the Barry Whites of the humpy salmon world have a great big shoulder boulder that makes the lady fish swoon.
Here’s one of those fishy freaks: www.landbigfish.com/articles/default.cfm?ID=352
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Ahhhh it’s a humpy, I stand corrected. Not familiar with them. That’s absolutely wild!
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
They’re so weird! Imagine going through your life sleek and swift, just to turn into Quasimodo once you hit puberty. Then you die.