How do flying fish fly?

How do flying fish fly? They extend their oversized pectoral fins, which catch air like wings. Specimen use made possible by University of Michigan Museum of Zoology #shorts

[iLikeDucks_]

The most wholesome channel about playing with corpses

[Banana_behind_the_slaughter]

Imagine they actually flew for a long period of time
“Is that bird? Is that a plane? NO it’s a Flying Fish!!”

[WobblesandBean]

Hi, zoologist here. It's not just their pectoral fins, but their amazing caudal fin, too! See how it's lopsided? The lower lobe is longer so it can easily propel itself back into the air with powerful tail pumps.

[FyoCoutch]

Never thought a dead fish covered in formaldehyde would look so good with little clouds and air animations 😂

[botmoderator]

You're missing a few steps. You see that long part of its tail. They use it like a boat rudder on the surface. They use it to skim the surface of the water before they take off.

[TheInvisibleCactusYT]

Who else remembers learning about these things when watching Octonauts

[Yomom-eexb]

Flying fish is the equivalent of human space travel

[bird-freakk]

Also notice how the bottom half of their forked tail is longer than the top. Whenever they lose speed and near the surface of the water they submerge that part of their tail and use it to propel themselves back into the air to continue their glide.

[optimusprimegaming]

Funny, Octonouts taught me the same thing about 11 years ago.

[earth-chan]

All I can think about is a hurricane going over a school of flying fish and launching them deep into the mainland

[SpecklesTeeV]

The Skimwing or Tsurak from Avatar The Way Of Water has been based off of the Flying Fish and an Alligator Gar.
You can see that the wings work exactly the same way

[Brookeee]

He finally got the fish he's been wanting!!!!

[Ham-Prince]

"This is a flying fish-"

Me: *takes a chomp out of it*

[みユき]

The way he moves that dead fish and turns it into an airplane as if it hadn't suffered enough 😭😭😭💀

[Musicmonke_]

The flying fish saw a bird and said “I wanna do that!” And proceeded to gain wing like fins.

[zarvelda]

Bro talking to us like 1st graders. 😂😂

[LesbianImpact]

Bro explained that one Octonauts episode in a scientific setting

[gossy]

Octonauts also explained this pretty well

[samhobbs]

“I think it’s a fish! To check, we count the bones in the skull… Lost of teeth, finally enough to be a fish!!!”

[Tyrexthecreaturedesigner]

I remember learning this from Octonauts