Flying Fish
Its a bird , no its a plane . Actually its flying fish
Flying Fish
Some quick facts about the flying fish are flying fish are warm water speceis. Flying fish have wing like fins also known as pectoral fins but both of those are actually called elastic membranes and when spread open are wings.
Flying Fish
Most of you might think flying fish just fly for fun but they fly to get away from the predator. Some predators of the flying fish are the shark ,tuna, porpoise and dolphins.
Flying Fish
For the flying fish to escape it needs to increase its speed [tail adds extra speed],keep its fins tight to its body and spreads its wings, when its speed is fast enough it scoops out of the water.
Flying Fish
The flying fish can fly 35 miles an hour, stay in the air from 2 to 15 seconds so as you can tell the flying fish can go a pretty long distance without landing in the water. The flying fish can span/fly 41 to 183 meters
What Flying Fish Eat and Where They Live
There are 65 species of flying fish,2of those species are the exocoetus volitans the most common species and the cypselurus californicus that lives off the coast of California. Since the flying fish are omnivores they will eat some meat, but the main food flying fish like to eat is plankton.
Life - Flying Fish
Flying Fish 45 Second World Record
This is a map of one of the places that the flying fish live AUSTRALIA
This is a real flying fish
This is an animated flying fish
Interesting fact
An intesting fact about flying fish is that they can fly so high that sailors usualy find them landing on their deck of their boat
Life of Pi - "Flying Fish" Clip
References
-http://www.mysciencebox.org/book/export/html/35-http://king-animal.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dolphin.html#.UpOoWtKG28A-http://www.toothfish.org/News/tabid/2520/ID/1003/Vote-Plankton.aspx-http://thedickybirds.com/category/every-blog-needs-a-porpoise/http://youtu.be/zf0sIKypI4g-http://youtu.be/p2eMX_pGNVI