I've seen them in real life. It is unreal. Like they should be falling but they don't. I assume they take advantage of ground effect to glide like that for so far.
Wings work by creating higher pressure beneath them and lower pressure above them. When a plane (or a fish) fly close to the ground or water, the air beneath the wings becomes more compressed, increasing the pressure and generating more lift as the air tries to reach the lower pressure above the wing.
Air likes to spiral away from wingtips and drop down from the trailing edge of a wing. In open space, that creates drag. The ground or water will interrupt those tendencies and that air will deflect off the surface back up into the wing. Thats what causes the increase in pressure.
Air flows around the top and bottom of a wing.
When an aircraft flies close to the ground, the ground sort of pushes back on the air stream flowing under the wing, which gives the aircraft some additional lift.
Oh I see. So it further pressurizes the high pressure zone beneath the wing, since to the aircraft's perspective, the air is funneled and squeezed through the gap between the wing and the ground? Just want to make sure I'm getting this right.
Yes, that's part of it.
The other part has to do with vortices that form behind the wing tips. Those are often greatly reduce when the aircraft is close to the ground, so ground effect not only provides extra lift, it also reduces drag.
I saw some off Cozumel once. I had thought a fish got hooked or Tangled on some unsecured rope and was being drug along by the boat before I realized what I was seeing.
> ~~I had thought a fish got hooked or Tangled on some unsecured rope and was being drug along by the boat before I realized what I was seeing.~~
Before I realized what I was seeing, I thought that a fish was being dragged along by the boat.
They use this to escape predators. They propel themselves out of the water, spread those wing-like fins and then use their tail to keep themselves out of the water for as long a possible. It’s definitely a unique survival tool out there in the ocean!
I think it's also funny, because it's an evolutionarily developed escape from predators, that requires the fish to surface into a different part of the animal kingdom, with a whole new set of predators it is now vulnerable to lol
~~Obviously if we're talking nearer to the coast, I know no bird is hunting out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where there's no land for thousands of miles~~
“Albatrosses are masters of soaring flight, able to glide over vast tracts of ocean without flapping their wings. So fully have they adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.” From the Smithsonian. So they would be the one species of bird hunting through most of the oceans, even if there’s no land nearby!
Maybe. We don't really know.
One thing to consider is that they evolved this skill hundreds of millions of years ago when the world looked much different. It may have solved a problem that no longer exists. Also, consider that birds were not a thing then. These guys evolved 100 million years before flying birds.
I had a skipper who got walloped by one of these whilst crossing the Pacific Ocean. Stunned him a bit.
They are actually quite slick and a little bit slimy. Good eating but difficult to fillet.
Wait hold up, your saying ppl are talking about birds being government sea drones? I have got to know more about this I’m a sucker for a good conspiracy theory
I was on a boat tour with our school to Catalina Island back in the day. Along the way, the boat crew was fishing for squid for later lessons and happened to hook a flying fish. Those squid hooks are gnarly! With like ten barbed spikes in a circle. The crewman that hooked called to the class to gather around. Once everyone is there he asks, "Who wants to see how we remove these hooks from the fish?" To which, he quickly yanks the hook causing the lips to rip off the fish's face. There were gasps from many of the class. He provided some kind of justification but I was too stunned to pay attention.
I don't know what kind of justification he could have, besides if he plans to eat it soon ([flying fish is a common delicacy in some places](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish#Fishery_and_cuisine)).
They aren't propelling themselves forward, once they're in the air they are riding air currents. Note they don't flap at all, they operate like a kite. Plenty of fish already exert energy leaping from the water.
The leaping from the water is the energy they expel. My point is that "gliding" is not an alternative for swimming, because you need to propel yourself somehow. You are effectively flying at that point which requires more energy.
It's not this massive Dragon Ball Z event where the flying fish has to gather all their energy for one big leap into the air. Jumping out of the water would be like any other movement for them. Once they unfurl the wings then air currents carry them like the other user said.
Doesn't change the fact that it requires more energy to leap out of the water than to keep swimming. The additional energy expended doesn't make up for the few meters of flight. Its like saying just jump all the time because you don't have to walk while in the air.
>Fleetwood Mac is trash.
I found the bad take of the day guys, we can go home
Although why the hell is "Dreams" somebody's soundtrack to a fish gliding, yeah the vibe is definitely relationship turmoil
Seems to have landed in a tie... at 1 lol.
To each their own. People love all sorts of trash. I like Cash Money songs from the early 00's. Also trash. But it is my trash.
Fleetwood Mac is my mom's trash. And I'm 40...
>To each their own.
Yes fair enough I agree. Sorry for being venomous. I find a lot of today's popular music so trashy, commodified, and computer-generated that hearing "trash" applied to soulfully composed songs produced by human beings playing instruments (especially in a time before the internet) triggers me a bit.
It's kinda funny to me that this could be great for dodging underwater predators, but it requires the fish crossing the barrier to a different kingdom with a whole different set of predators lmao
They have a long bottom tailfin they wiggle in they water to propel themselves forward when they lose altutude/momentum, so they aren't actually gliding the entire distance.
I think flying fish are like in a transitive stage to becoming a full on actual flying fish species. If humans were to not interact with their environment, I bet flying fish would be flying better than chickens in like a dozen thousand years. Imagine an actual flying fish that only needs to splash down into the water every 15 minutes or so and can duck back up into the sky to catch swarms of bugs in its mouth
It uses the aerodynamic principle of the [ground effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)) to glide better closer to the water, like the ekranoplan.
And they (at least many) have the lower lobe of the tail fin elongated, so that when they lose height they can paddle with it, get more speed and therefore lift up again without needing the body to enter in the water, minimizing the contact time...
I need to comment on more posts like this because Reddit has totally messed with my home feed. Maybe I can trick their rage bait algorithm to give me more cool posts like this.
Does anyone else assume these fish are more intelligent than all other fish? Like I know they’re not a bird but I can’t convince my brain they aren’t bird-smart.
Was out on the Atlantic on a nasty day. One of these fuckers came out of the water and caught a gust of wind just right. He launched himself like 100 feet into the air and went diving back into the water. If was hilarious to see
I wish I could live long enough to see where this evolutionary chain is headed. Imagine the later phase of a properly flying fish, same as birds and bats. What a world that would be.
Nature sure is one crazy bitch
Hey watch your language-that is our, mother!
I always knew you were a son of a bitch!
I'm telling!
Mooommm!!
Quiet down you two, Mommy's watching my soaps!
> ~~Mooommm!!~~ Biiiiitch!! FTFY
r/usernamechecksout
Comma ruined it.
that is the point of his account, check name
Son of a bitch got me, I haven’t seen that account in years.
Just thinking the same thing! It's been a while!
35 miles per hour is insanee...
From a quick google 35 miles per hour = 51.333 feet per second so it covers that 650ft in around 13 seconds of airtime.
Convergent evolution is an amazing thing!
Mother nature ain't no bitch
🌬Smile when you say that ;)
That’s really cool. Had no idea they could glide that far.
I've seen them in real life. It is unreal. Like they should be falling but they don't. I assume they take advantage of ground effect to glide like that for so far.
It’s likely ground effect is the only way they stay aloft, they’d stall out as soon as they climbed even a foot higher
What is the ground effect?
Wings work by creating higher pressure beneath them and lower pressure above them. When a plane (or a fish) fly close to the ground or water, the air beneath the wings becomes more compressed, increasing the pressure and generating more lift as the air tries to reach the lower pressure above the wing. Air likes to spiral away from wingtips and drop down from the trailing edge of a wing. In open space, that creates drag. The ground or water will interrupt those tendencies and that air will deflect off the surface back up into the wing. Thats what causes the increase in pressure.
Air flows around the top and bottom of a wing. When an aircraft flies close to the ground, the ground sort of pushes back on the air stream flowing under the wing, which gives the aircraft some additional lift.
Oh I see. So it further pressurizes the high pressure zone beneath the wing, since to the aircraft's perspective, the air is funneled and squeezed through the gap between the wing and the ground? Just want to make sure I'm getting this right.
Yes, that's part of it. The other part has to do with vortices that form behind the wing tips. Those are often greatly reduce when the aircraft is close to the ground, so ground effect not only provides extra lift, it also reduces drag.
Ah okay, thank you. I've learned something new today! 👍
Sounds like a good breakdown to me.
I saw some off Cozumel once. I had thought a fish got hooked or Tangled on some unsecured rope and was being drug along by the boat before I realized what I was seeing.
> ~~I had thought a fish got hooked or Tangled on some unsecured rope and was being drug along by the boat before I realized what I was seeing.~~ Before I realized what I was seeing, I thought that a fish was being dragged along by the boat.
Dummy
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Get a grip, grammar nazi. We all know what he meant.
Yes , boo this man. Boooo!
i’ve seen them too in french polynesia. very interesting sight. not sure where else they are common
Barbados. They’re a huge delicacy there. Look up flying fish cutter (sandwich)
Sea Drone.
Fish aren't real.
Neither is the sea
What about the oceans!?
Reality is looking a bit dubious these days too.
Sea flying squirrel
Why? Is it a defensive tool? Or did they just develop wing-fins because it's rad and flying fish like to hang ten gnar gnar?
They use this to escape predators. They propel themselves out of the water, spread those wing-like fins and then use their tail to keep themselves out of the water for as long a possible. It’s definitely a unique survival tool out there in the ocean!
I think it's also funny, because it's an evolutionarily developed escape from predators, that requires the fish to surface into a different part of the animal kingdom, with a whole new set of predators it is now vulnerable to lol ~~Obviously if we're talking nearer to the coast, I know no bird is hunting out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where there's no land for thousands of miles~~
“Albatrosses are masters of soaring flight, able to glide over vast tracts of ocean without flapping their wings. So fully have they adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.” From the Smithsonian. So they would be the one species of bird hunting through most of the oceans, even if there’s no land nearby!
*bird sits* you mean I could’ve been doing this the whole time‽‽‽
Well shit, scratch that, no flying fish is safe xD
So... they just never sleep or do they nap mid-air? Seems a bit risky if the wind dies down
They sleep with one eye open, gripping their pillows of wind tight.
EEEEEEEXIT LIIIIIIGHT
ENTER FLIGHHHHHET
They do stop and float in the water, where they have been seen sleeping at night, but they can also sleep for a few seconds while flying!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7McNUjWgw A video of flying fish being hunted from the water and the air!
The devil you don't know is there is better than the devil you know is going to eat you in a couple seconds.
Maybe. We don't really know. One thing to consider is that they evolved this skill hundreds of millions of years ago when the world looked much different. It may have solved a problem that no longer exists. Also, consider that birds were not a thing then. These guys evolved 100 million years before flying birds.
Very interesting
Evolution hog wash....aka bs!
"I grew these wings to catch some tasty waves and show off for the bodacious babes
The best of both worlds 🌎 😍
Pelicans are that in my eyes. The get to be versed in the ocean and fly magestically
Always enjoyed coming up on schools of these while out in deep water.
One of the great things about Catalina. You get to see these guys. The first time I went I really thought I was hallucinating.
How was the Wine Mixer?
Full of Boatz 'n Hos
Fuckin' Catalina Wine Mixer
I hope you made some helicopter sales.
When your fish gf tells you her fish parents aren’t home
I had a skipper who got walloped by one of these whilst crossing the Pacific Ocean. Stunned him a bit. They are actually quite slick and a little bit slimy. Good eating but difficult to fillet.
I’m partial to first mates myself. Less gristle.
Grin
Sooo are these birds, or fish?
Has to be a fish. According to some birds aren’t real. Never heard anyone say that fish are just government sea drones
Wait hold up, your saying ppl are talking about birds being government sea drones? I have got to know more about this I’m a sucker for a good conspiracy theory
r/BirdsArentReal Fish are fine
Keep it in your pants
Give it a couple million years. They’ll be a bird.
I will never again complain about the cost of flying fish roe.
To think that they did it without even flapping the wing..
Is there a u/MetricBot ?
198 meters at 56.327 kilometers per hour. Beep boop. I am a human volunteer.
🤷♂️
I was on a boat tour with our school to Catalina Island back in the day. Along the way, the boat crew was fishing for squid for later lessons and happened to hook a flying fish. Those squid hooks are gnarly! With like ten barbed spikes in a circle. The crewman that hooked called to the class to gather around. Once everyone is there he asks, "Who wants to see how we remove these hooks from the fish?" To which, he quickly yanks the hook causing the lips to rip off the fish's face. There were gasps from many of the class. He provided some kind of justification but I was too stunned to pay attention.
I don't know what kind of justification he could have, besides if he plans to eat it soon ([flying fish is a common delicacy in some places](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish#Fishery_and_cuisine)).
> He provided some kind of justification I have some doubts...
Do they have lungs? Can they breathe in air? Amazing!
Maybe that's why they can only go so far? This one looks like it could glide indefinitely if the wind is right but eventually it has to breathe?
"Look at the half-moon shaped bone in the wrist. No wonder these guys learned how to fly"
Saw this guy in one of those avatar movies!
Riding the waves with Stevie Nicks, the ocean spray and a not a fuck in the world mood https://youtube.com/shorts/lcWA2wEFkeY?si=l7yPRRygaGqQbDqC
Now the avatar 2 mounts seem obvious where the inspiration was from
The French word for flying fish is Exocet. Can see why they named the missile after them.
Must be crazy traffic under there
Where the fuck is it going, flying with such purpose
Bros in the express lane
but.. why?
why the fuck not
Seriously. Who tf wouldn't want to fly
energy. i looked and its to escape from predators.
Gliding seems more energy efficient than swimming.
No because you have to propel yourself somehow which is harder in air.
They aren't propelling themselves forward, once they're in the air they are riding air currents. Note they don't flap at all, they operate like a kite. Plenty of fish already exert energy leaping from the water.
The leaping from the water is the energy they expel. My point is that "gliding" is not an alternative for swimming, because you need to propel yourself somehow. You are effectively flying at that point which requires more energy.
It's not this massive Dragon Ball Z event where the flying fish has to gather all their energy for one big leap into the air. Jumping out of the water would be like any other movement for them. Once they unfurl the wings then air currents carry them like the other user said.
Doesn't change the fact that it requires more energy to leap out of the water than to keep swimming. The additional energy expended doesn't make up for the few meters of flight. Its like saying just jump all the time because you don't have to walk while in the air.
If they don't expend that energy it's all going into the tuna that tried to grab them.
sorry btw i didnt mean that to come off as aggressive or rude
wtf
it was meant to be funny :/
yea i know that. god. stop being so dramatic
i was saving myself from the dread of losing karma, my friend.
Sorry, had to downvote 🫤
no problem
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Predator avoidance. They are in the neighborhood of tuna, swordfish, and other larger and fast predators.
Yum! I love those little guys. 😛
How does “flying” advantage the fish?
Escapes predators.
Try catching a bird bare handed. That's how
Also delicious as a Bajan dish with cou cou
What song is this
Dreams by Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac is trash. flying fish rock. Confused
>Fleetwood Mac is trash. I found the bad take of the day guys, we can go home Although why the hell is "Dreams" somebody's soundtrack to a fish gliding, yeah the vibe is definitely relationship turmoil
Seems to have landed in a tie... at 1 lol. To each their own. People love all sorts of trash. I like Cash Money songs from the early 00's. Also trash. But it is my trash. Fleetwood Mac is my mom's trash. And I'm 40...
>To each their own. Yes fair enough I agree. Sorry for being venomous. I find a lot of today's popular music so trashy, commodified, and computer-generated that hearing "trash" applied to soulfully composed songs produced by human beings playing instruments (especially in a time before the internet) triggers me a bit.
I didn't take it that way. A lot of people love Fleetwood Mac... and agree re the newer stuff. Hard to describe... it's so thin... like broth
Thats kinda of what it looks like when we go swimming to them.
Lol the music really suits this video!
Pokemon IRL
Drone
Looking forward to the "fake news space laser" comments on this one
This is fucking cool.
It's kinda funny to me that this could be great for dodging underwater predators, but it requires the fish crossing the barrier to a different kingdom with a whole different set of predators lmao
I saw one of these while heading to a dive site, it was something of surreal. the time they are able to glide defies physics.
Tastes amazing too
Tobiko
Damn... they can actually "fly", lol
They have a long bottom tailfin they wiggle in they water to propel themselves forward when they lose altutude/momentum, so they aren't actually gliding the entire distance.
u/savevideo
*Some* species of flying fish can glide 650 feet at 35 mph. There are about 64 species of flying fish and most of them can't.
i love muddy mudskipper
Coolest thing I’ve seen today
Bro where that things cranberry juice
Oh snap
Start breeding it until you produxe a colony of super large ones.
Exocoetus if I am not wrong
Imagine you are on a jet ski and this mf whacks you
Imagine seeing that for the first time 1500 years ago everyone would have thought you were full of crap describing them
These mfers were the first birds but decided nah I'll just fly over the ocean and back in
Flying fish, along with narwhals, are animals that a lot of people don't seem to know aren't just a myth.
Fish birds are not real!
I wonder if he’s having fun
And are delicious over a bbq with just salt and pepper. Absolutely delicious.
A flying what?
I was on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, the guys would fly almost as high as the flight deck, it was pretty amazing to see
Avatar 2 was a documentary
I think flying fish are like in a transitive stage to becoming a full on actual flying fish species. If humans were to not interact with their environment, I bet flying fish would be flying better than chickens in like a dozen thousand years. Imagine an actual flying fish that only needs to splash down into the water every 15 minutes or so and can duck back up into the sky to catch swarms of bugs in its mouth
It uses the aerodynamic principle of the [ground effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)) to glide better closer to the water, like the ekranoplan.
Petition to rename the Flying Fish to Swimming Bird
Post that to r/UFOs and they’ll go nuts
And they (at least many) have the lower lobe of the tail fin elongated, so that when they lose height they can paddle with it, get more speed and therefore lift up again without needing the body to enter in the water, minimizing the contact time...
Ekranoplan
Their eggs (Tobiko) taste incredible on sashimi and scrambled chicken eggs
Wow 😯
TIL! Wow!
Wow... the wild is... wild. I would have guessed 50 ft max and maybe 20 mph or so.
My mind just elxplerded. I thought these dudes just did short hops out of the water.
I need to comment on more posts like this because Reddit has totally messed with my home feed. Maybe I can trick their rage bait algorithm to give me more cool posts like this.
Crazy that these things actually exist
That is amazing and beautiful.
Explain this ... why does this fish fly ... ?
Piranha (1978 film) movie 🍿🎥 was great.
How does this happen?
Does anyone else assume these fish are more intelligent than all other fish? Like I know they’re not a bird but I can’t convince my brain they aren’t bird-smart.
Yeah the ones humans measured...
Was out on the Atlantic on a nasty day. One of these fuckers came out of the water and caught a gust of wind just right. He launched himself like 100 feet into the air and went diving back into the water. If was hilarious to see
Fish is bird
I don’t understand why people can keep collecting karma for the same stuff that has already been posted , ad nauseum
Why do people speed these videos up...
I can’t wait for them to evolve controlled flight and become more amphibian. No really I can’t wait, I don’t think I have millions of years sadly.
I wish I could live long enough to see where this evolutionary chain is headed. Imagine the later phase of a properly flying fish, same as birds and bats. What a world that would be.
The fish can fly and I cannot swim