Hey Look, Tim as a Puffer Fish
Here's a list of puff-bits on the Puffer Fish
- Puffer Fish is also known as globefish, swellfish, and blowfish.
- Symbols of the fish have been identified on tombs of Egypt's V
Dynasty, 2700 B.C..
- Chinese thought that some Puffers looked like pigs and make noise
like pigs, too. The Minstrel Pufferfish (Canthigaster valentini) is able
to make an angry grunting noise when upset.
- The Puffer Fish is most common throughout Central and Indo-Pacific.
They can also be found in the Indian Ocean and in the South Pacific.
- The Pufferfish have 2 fused teeth above and below forming a beak
which allows them to give a dangerous nip.
- Pufferfishes keep their teeth nice and sharp by chewing through snail
shells for food.
- They are quite agrressive toward their own kind, but manage to breed.
- The Pufferfish blows up by taking air into it's mouth in about a
dozen noisy gulps, until the belly is fully inflated and hard. As the
internal pressure increase, some pufferfishes (mostly blowfishes) have
little spines that stick out at the scale spots.
- The pufferfish can only hold the balloon form for only about half a
minute.
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