No one can remain indifferent, seeing the fish for the first time, let's not even alive, and photography.The muzzle of the amorphous gelatinous creatures seems created from sadness to sadness and discouragement in the name.Widely spaced eyes, wide mouth, sadly hangs thick "nose" (in fact it is, of course, not the nose, but this creates an impression) - all together able to catch even the most melancholy cheerful individual.
Fish drop was "discovered" (ie, first described and classified) in 1926, when Australian fishermen fished provide a copy of zoologists.The fish is considered inedible, brought in the annals of zoological and left alone.In addition, the fish itself, the drop was not eager to catch the eye of people as lived at depths of more than six hundred meters, and close to the surface, where the water pressure is low, I felt uncomfortable.
Because of habitat in deep water fish drop developed a number of tools to help it pretty well exist in the depths of the ocean.Firstly, it does not have a swim bladder, since such huge pressure it is useless.Secondly, fish drop virtually no muscle and generally floats in the flow.For food she chases, the food comes (or rather sails) to her own.Its diet consists mainly of plankton and the food it produces, a gaping mouth.Small crustaceans swim in the mouth themselves.
Fish-drop - a good mother and takes care of their kiddies no worse than a mother hen about chickens.Dismisses caviar, it "incubates" it - just as Kvochka eggs, and when the eggs of "hatch" small "droplets", taking care of them, looking for a quiet place of their habitat, "kindergartens" - in the terminology of zoologists.See that they grow up in peace and security.However, at a depth of natural enemies it has virtually none.
main enemy drops a fish-man.No, especially for fish-nets do not drop no throws.She gets into the network, when the fishermen spend trawling for deepwater lobster or crab.
Although fish drop-known to people less than a hundred years and is considered inedible, there were and are "foodies" who thought that this deep "Jelly" is a great delicacy.According to some reports, in Japan, China and South-East Asia, there are many wealthy people willing to pay for the inhabitants of the ocean depths a lot of money.However, it is not surprising if we recall the contemporary Chinese proverb that says that a good cook can prepare everything that crawls on the fields, except for tractors, anything that flies in the sky, except airplanes, and anything that swims in the depths of the sea, except for submarineboats.
How it looks in its natural habitat, at a depth of six hundred to one thousand two hundred meters - is unknown.Fish-drop your photos did not leave.And to do it in the near future is unlikely.But on the shore or on board a fishing schooner, she looks very unattractive.It occurs a drop in fish mainly off the coast of Australia, but some specimens caught in all oceans except the Arctic.At greater depths inhabited by fish, photos and names are still waiting for the publication on the pages of encyclopedias and textbooks.The ocean depths still very poorly studied.
Because of sloppy catching marine arthropods and attention of Asian gourmet fish drop is endangered.Is a person familiar with this unusual fish would be so short - less than one hundred years?The history of relations between people and nature says that this is not unusual.This has happened many times.Steller's sea cow, for example, was destroyed after only twenty-seven years after opening.But you do not want to fish-drop, it is a sad miracle, it suffered the same fate.
