{"id":21595,"date":"2022-10-19T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/?p=68891"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:12:11","slug":"can-fish-walk","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/can-fish-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Can fish walk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Laurie Jackson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 19 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Several species of fish have been seen \u2018walking\u2019 along the seabed in a variety of different styles.<\/p>\n

Which fish can \u2018walk\u2019?<\/h2>\n
Aided by buoyancy, bottom-dwelling frogfish use their pectoral fins to shuffle after prey, while epaulette sharks also use their pelvic fins to haul themselves between rockpools.<\/p>\n
In fresh water, lungfish walk on long, fleshy fins, but on land this turns into more of a belly crawl. Mudskippers also venture onto land. Their pectoral fins have a joint-like bend that, with their tails, allows them to spring across muddy estuaries. These all follow a rather loose definition of walking, but deep in the Thai rainforest, cave angel fish do things differently.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\""p3"\">They are one of the very few fish to have a bone connection between their pelvic fins and spine which, combined with strong muscles, allows them to walk through caves and even up waterfalls in a fashion similar to a newt.<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>More fascinating fish facts<\/h4>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/can-fish-drown\/"\">Can fish drown?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/news\/fish-can-count\/"\">Can fish count?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/is-there-really-no-such-thing-as-a-fish\/"\">Is there really no such thing as a fish?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/do-fish-make-friends\/"\">Do fish make friends?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p class=\""p3"\"><b><br\/><\/b><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laurie Jackson Published: Wednesday, 19 October 2022 at 12:00 am Several species of fish have been seen \u2018walking\u2019 along the seabed in a variety of different styles. Which fish can \u2018walk\u2019? Aided by buoyancy, bottom-dwelling frogfish use their pectoral fins to shuffle after prey, while epaulette sharks also use their pelvic fins to haul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21596,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/10\/can-fish-walk-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Laurie Jackson Published: Wednesday, 19 October 2022 at 12:00 am Several species of fish have been seen \u2018walking\u2019 along the seabed in a variety of different styles. Which fish can \u2018walk\u2019? Aided by buoyancy, bottom-dwelling frogfish use their pectoral fins to shuffle after prey, while epaulette sharks also use their pelvic fins to haul…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}