flying fish
a flying fish
a kind of fish – salt water bony fish – grows to 1-1½ feet in length and weighs about 1 Kg.(?); feeds on plankton (= very small plant organisms), crabs, shrimps, and other small fish; some with four side wings (pectoral fins) and some with only two side wings; {life span not know}; 50 species (kinds) found in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans
a flying fish in mid-air
Barbados, a country in the Caribbean Sea, was once called “The land of flying fish”.
The flying fish jump out of water with such force that it can then glide through air over some distance. Its side fins (pectoral fins) which are large, (almost half its body length), open up, like the wings of a bird, and help the fish to glide through the air for up to 30-50 metres long. The maximum flying time record is 45 seconds; the speed record is 64 Km/h!
Though flying fish normally do not flap their wings, like that of a bird, some species (kinds), like the ‘African butterfly fish’, are known to actually flap their fins! Flying fish use this extraordinary ability to escape from their predators (= animals which eat them).
flying fish (noun) = some curiosity (something that makes you look at it with more interest); some oddity (something that is very different or strange from others)
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