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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I mean, you probably should throw it like a paper airplane (with form, and not stupendously forcefully), or at least put it back in the water. It is a fish, it will asphyxiate if you just keep holding it.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
don’t they glide for ridiculous lengths of time tho?
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Apparently the longest ever recorded glide is 45 seconds.
Fish don’t have lungs, so the analogy is kind of busted, but some humans can hold their breath for 30 seconds, some 2 minutes, some 5 minutes, but it doesn’t take long for brain damage/death to occur.
I’d guesstimate that a flying fish would be probably irrevivably dead after 3 to 5 minutes out of water.
I tried to look up more specifics on flying fish respiratory systems vs other fish back when I posted this, but I couldn’t find much.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
I have to imagine it has a greater capacity to hold its breath than the average fish, on account of their gliding and everything.