Rainbow Trout Facts: the STEELHEAD Trout 🐟 Animal Fact Files

The rainbow trout is also known as the redband trout and the steelhead trout depending on where it lives. How many rainbow trout facts do you know? Learn more about the rainbow trout on this Animal Fact Files episode!

Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus mykiss
Range: native to western North America
Habitat: lakes, rivers, open ocean, etc.
Size: up to 24 inches (61 cm) on average
Diet: zooplankton, fish and their larvae, invertebrates and their larvae, etc.
Threats: otters, bears, humans, etc.
Lifespan: oldest recorded individual was 11 years old

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Rainbow Trout A MYSTERYIOUS FISH 0:00
Rainbow Trout HABITAT and RANGE 0:48
Rainbow Trout ANADROMOUS (?) 1:21
Rainbow Trout LIFE CYCLE 2:00
Rainbow Trout APPERANCE and DIET 2:33
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[Datsick]

Some of my favorites to fish for and eat . Love trout

[It_is_Just_Will]

Just wanted too thank you for that 5minutes of little facts we get every few days, Keep up the good work!

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[sleepybear]

@1:33 that looks like a fisher cat, I think? Living up to their name 🎣

[baulplart]

I know a lot about these guys but I still learned something thanks AFF😁

[kevinerbs]

I have seen rainbow trout differnce between true steelhead. At the same size, weight & time of the year. The rainbow trout is a light metalic green on top. The steelhead have silverish brown on top. Both have a pinks hues arcross their sides & white bellies.

[chisaquaticvibe]

The rainbow trout is a cold-water fish that is in the same family as salmon.

[indyreno]

Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish containing the salmon, trout, chars, huchen, lenoks, taimens, graylings, and freshwater whitefish, it is the sole extant family of the order Salmoniformes and is part of the superorder Protacanthopterygii, which also contains pikes, mudminnows, smelts, barreleyes, dragonfish, marine hatchetfish, lanternfish, lizardfish, lancetfish, and spiderfish amongst others, the family is divided into three subfamilies: Coregoninae (Freshwater Whitefish), Thymallinae (Graylings), and Salmoninae (Salmon, Trout, Huchen, Chars, Lenoks, and Taimens), the Salmoninae subfamily is further divided into two tribes: Salmonini (Huchen, Chars, and Atlantic Salmon and Trout) and Oncorhynchini (Lenoks, Taimens, and Pacific Salmon and Trout).