{"id":2344,"date":"2013-04-20T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:22:09","slug":"pic-of-the-day-red-lipped-batfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day – Red-Lipped Batfish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Galapagos Red Lipped Batfish – Ogcocephalus darwini<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

<\/em>Friday flew by, and I didn’t find an opportunity to share a funny fish face. So here it is, a day late.<\/p>\n

And what a very strange fish this is. This species of batfish is specific to the Galapagos Islands. I found this one in fairly deep water (about 90 feet), in Chimney Bay at Wolf Island. Like the Flying Gunard<\/a> that I shared last week, this Red-Lipped Batfish is more a “walking” fish than a swimming fish. It is a very inept swimmer, and instead bumbles along the bottom, using those two modified pectoral fins to do the “walking” for it.<\/p>\n

After I found and photographed the fish above (whose bright red lips really don’t “pop” until lit by strobe or flashlight), I found another batfish and photographed it. This one apparently went out without putting on its makeup ;^) Seriously, I have no idea if this is a juvenile or a variation on the species.<\/p>\n

These fish were about 12 inches long.<\/p>\n

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Friday flew by, and I didn’t find an opportunity to share a funny fish face. So here it is, a day late. And what a very strange fish this is. This species of batfish is specific to the Galapagos Islands. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,62,13],"tags":[126,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}