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Here’s What It Sounds Like When Fish ‘Talk’ And Communicate Similarly To Birds And Whales

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Here's What It Sounds Like When Fish Talk And Communicate

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  • Scientists have long known that fish communicate with each other (dating back 150 million years) but until now they’ve never had recordings of fish talking
  • These new recordings show fish have ‘dawn and dusk’ choruses where they sound differently (similar to birds) and these sounds of fish talking are truly surreal
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Let’s kick this off by saying that yes, fish talk. They’ve been communicating with each other for 150 million years. The peculiar fish version of ‘talking’ is very different than ours but it’s not all that dissimilar from whales or birds.

Recordings from ScienceAlert are blowing people away. It’s the first time we can definitively say this is what it sounds like when fish chat amongst one another. They’ve recorded several species of fish communicating with one another including The Midshipmen species and the Longspine Squirrelfish.

Interestingly, they have observed that fish have ‘dawn and dusk choruses’ that vary from morning to evening similar to how birds communicate via songs and chirps. Side note: I’m claiming ‘Fish Can Talk’ as my new band name so you’re not allowed to take it.

Here’s What It Sounds Like When Fish Talk

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In addition to talking, they observed that fish communicate by grinding their teeth or making specialized movements in the water. But they found that two-thirds of the 175 fish families they observed communicate by sound.

The research was published in Ichthyology & Herpetology and they found that “some fish groups were chattier than others” according to Science Alert. Amongst the most talkative fish were catfish. And I don’t know why but if I had to rank the fish that blabber on the most I’m not sure catfish would be anywhere near the top of my list.

To determine the nature of what fish communicate about will take another lifetime of study. It’s most likely that fish talk about their environment (food, predators, weather/water conditions) but nobody will be able to say for sure what fish talk about for a LONG time.