Why is it that you can buy fish fingers? Fish don't have fingers, do they?
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They're called fish fingers not because they're fingers of a fish but because they are shaped and cut in the form of a human finger.
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The whale shark is the biggest fish.\nWhales are mammals and cannot be called "fish".
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you cannot keep a fish a certian size so i do not understand your question
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Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived in a village, and in that village he became very well known for selling a particular kind of fish that all the villagers took home and cooked for their families. So popular was this fisherman that he came to believe that his fish must be the best fish in the whole river, ( even though the river had many other kinds of fish in it ). He even started to claim that his fish had much longer-lasting health benefits than other fish, and that that was why other fish had lost popularity in his own village.\n\nThen one day another fisherman came to the village. This fisherman not only caught fish, but cooked his fish, and served them to the other villagers. Now, as it turned out, his ability to both catch fish and cook them seemed to make him even more popular with the villagers than the first fisherman.\n\nBut the first fisherman was very puzzled by this, as he had become so convinced of his own popularity and success. So he went to the second fisherman to ask what his secret was.\n\n"Well", said the second fisherman, "The river is flowing and abundant, so I'm happy to catch any fish that are in the river, for there are indeed many. And when I get all the different kinds of fish back to my kitchen, I use only the very finest parts of each fish, ( discarding the rest ), and then I cook them together, and serve them to my customers. But I only serve them the right combination of fish according to what I know are the tastes of my individual customers. Because when you know what others really want, then you can really serve them. And serving customers well - that is what I call a real taste of success.
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Star fish have five *arms* (or, sometimes, multiples of five or six arms).  Their legs are called "tube feet" and are found in the grooves under the arms.  They have an even number of them!\n\nMost animals have an even number of legs because they are symmetrical along a single axis, so both sides end up looking the same.  The only way to have an odd number would be to not be bilaterally symmetrical (and the only animals who aren't don't have legs!) or to have a leg in the middle, which wouldn't be much use.\n\nThe only "exception" to this would be an insect-like animal called the springtail.  It's not really a leg, but they do have their abdomen bent over and underneath them.  They use it to spring very high into the air, so you could call it a leg of a sort.  Sprintails are neat.  They are very common, but most people never notice them because they are mostly quite small.
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I was thinking this question only yesterday! How strange! I'd like to know the answer to this one too. I thought Tuna were smaller than Dolphins, so they can't escape through holes in the net.
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Well, that depends on your definition of "tail".\n\nIf a tail is defined as an extension of the vertebrae (or notochord) behind the anus or cloaca, then most fish do have a tail.\n\nThere are some few exceptions, for example the ocean sunfish ( http://www.oceanlight.com/html/mola_mola.html). These fish don't have a caudal fin with normal tail vertebrae; it is replaced by modified caudal elements. This condition is known as "gephyrocercal" (http://www.briancoad.com/Dictionary/DicPics/gephyrocercal.htm).\n\nIf, however, you're thinking of a typical caudal fin, there are many fishes without them, such as eels and other anguilliform species. However, they usually do have caudal vertebrae (it is the membrane that they lack).
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Fire away, as said before, there are no dumb questions.\n\nFish don't float because they are heavier than water, without the air pockets. They take in water in to go down and discharge water to go up, like a submarine.\n\nIf just sitting there and not going up or down is called neutral buoyancy. Fish then weighs the same as the water.
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None - Cuttlefish have tentacles.\n\nCuttlefish are marine animals of the order Sepiida belonging to the Cephalopoda class (which also include squids, octopuses and nautilus). Although the name suggests it, cuttlefish are not fish, but molluscs.
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With the exception of lungfish, most fish don't last long out of water because they can't breathe.  They die within minutes As well, they can't move at all so they are sitting prey for predators. In hot weather, they also dry out quickly.
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Heres a  joke for children, How do you know fish have good eyesight? Ever seen one wearing glasses?
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we also got fish fingers in the UK, these can either be goujons of fish (fish sticks) in a crispy crumb sold be a benevolent looking sea captain with a penchant for travelling around the world with lotas of underage children, or a nickname for a woman of a loose persuasion.\n\nbut you have a good point, i dont really agree with any variety of reconstituted meat product, the thought of "mechanically reclaimed meat" makes my skin crawl bleagh
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Sharks are boneless fish, so very primitive evolutionarily-they harken back a few hundred million years, without very much change- I seriously doubt, both because they are so primitive and havent changed in so long, that they have any remaining vestigial structures.  Generally vestigial structures come from an animal that has evolved from a quite different precursor-sharks are very close to the very first fish that evolved, thus they probably havent had to shed any organs or bones that arent useful.\nRibs? How is that vestigial?  They use their ribs for structural support, just like all fish...
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You run the fishing line through the straws.  Tape the straws together loosely with the duct tape.\n\nYou can then control finger movement by tugging on the lines.
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You don't, until you've done your research. Only the basic fish will live -- forget comets and quicksilvers at this stage. Breed what you have, sell a few, make some money, then complete your research. Once you do, everything will live.
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in the sea again... sorry... go buy another clown fish and eat him...that little fellow will just have to live a little longer... besides why would you want to eat a deformed fish?
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Five fingers, one of those fingers is an opposable thumb used for grasping and hitting the Space Bar. \n\nOur primate ancestors which had the thumb mutation benefited from it most and used hand-held weapons like sticks and rocks to strike down rival clans for territory and resources. Their children survived well with the thumbs, and then the enlarged brain mutation occured next.\n\n\nWhat would be great is a second thumb on the other side of the hand-- that would be very useful. Maybe the next intelligent species will have that. Imagine the amount of work that could be done with two pairs of thumbs.\n\nBefore fingers they were the spiny projections of fish fins. Amphibians had five digit feet and hands. These evolved from fish. From amphibians came early reptiles, and from the reptiles came birds and mammals and even more types reptiles including snakes and lizards, which all use the hands, feet, and appendages differently due to genetic mutation.\n\nSometimes the brains of these animals still contain information on how to use the appendages for unnecessary purposes, like a crippled bird would use its wing arms to help it aid in land locomotion. A snake might be able to twitch its little rudimentary legs which are inside its body if it wanted to.\n\nSometimes these animals may have a mutation where (for example) wings could bear exposed fingers, or rudimentary legs may become grossly elongated. It is up to natural selection whether these mutated animals survive, thrive, or die off.\n\nIn our case, the thumb mutation was beneficial.\n\nThe big toe mutation was sort of unnecessary but it doesn't hold us back at all, really.