I love exotic animals and there's some people that don't even know that these animals live with us here on a planet. I like to watch the animals sometimes. Let's back up and can you tell me what a fish is? Okay, a fish is a vertebrate, which means it has a bony skeleton with a backbone. It's a vertebrate that lives in the water. Fish is breathe water. They're part of a clade called Axenopterigii - ray-find fishes. But they have a very frilly, complicated blood enriched gill sort of filament.
ALL. ABOUT. FISH. Hilariously charming fish expert and LA County Natural History Museum Curator of Ichthyology, Dr. Christine Thacker, sits down with Alie in a basement full of several million jars of fish to chat about the worst fish husbands, the weirdest mating behaviors, the scariest fish, the nicest fish, the tiniest fish, how they breathe, how you can help reverse global warming, and whether you should pee in wetsuits. I love her so much and so will you.
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Editing by Steven Ray Morris
Music by Nick Thorburn