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The article represents the "strike" of the frogfish as "the fastest movement in the animal kingdom", we had a quibble on the Fish Quiz about this item. Wouldn't it be better to say "strike" because there are other external movements in the animal kingdom that are quicker, eye movements were the example i gave.....?As stated i think it creates confusion. Dwaink 05:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I think the warty frog fish is really neat. You see my class and I were given an asinment to pick a sea animal and do some reach on it.I had no Idea what I was going to do, so I looked at this book about sea animals and found this very werid looking one that I have never seen so I did it and just doing some reach on it the warty frog fish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.50.99.2 ( talk) 20:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I have some questions for whomever is editing this website:
What does the Frogfish eat? the frog fish will eat any piece of fleshy material it can fit in its mouth, including other frog fish.
The colors. . . do the Frogfish have chamelon-like or octopus-like abilities to allow them to change color and blend? Or did each species evolve to match just one type of coral background? it is a mixture of your last two. you see certain frog fish, like the saragasum frog fish, have evolved to suit their environment by looking more like their surroundings. however most use theiur amazing cromatophores, like octopus, and possibly chameloens, to change color. chromatophores are skin pigments that shrink and expand.
The method of locomation is a little unclear, could it be cleaned up? Is the article basically stating that the Frogfish uses it's appendages to "jump" at it's prey? thats about right. they can swim, but not very well, most often they crawl on their modified pecoral fins, or just lay about waiting for a meal.
I don't object to the number of photos. This is an extremely varied animal; the photos serve an educational purpose.
Thanks. And I apologize if I've broken any Wiki rules. This is my first time. <HAUER> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.169.132.1 ( talk) 00:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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23:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I am going to be working on translating the german version of this article hopefully completely within a week. Please find my current draft in my sandbox. -- Jieagles ( talk) 20:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
In section "
Features" in the accompanying article, i am ignorant of whether tube worms within a single taxon are relevant, or the general article
Tube worm (body plan) should be linked, and i left the Dab un-byp'd.
--
Jerzy•
t
23:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
I tried to link a short video that clearly shows both the free swimming and 'jet propulsion' movement of a frogfish. I inserted the link after the word 'propulsion' in the movement section of the article. This link is to a movie I made myself and it is hosted by youtube. I am a avid diver and do all underwater filming myself. A wiki bot removed the link shortly after I had placed it, though I own full copyright. Should I undo the action or not? I think the movie is appropiate (I have read the guidelines about linking youtube movies). Charlesleflamand ( talk) 04:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please look at this video and explain why the small brown frogfish is following the larger yellow one? Is it just tagging along looking for food or has it imprinted on the larger one? The video is 40% down the page. http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-fish-on-earth-include-some-definite-nightm-1709122107 Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors ( talk) 02:55, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Frogfish article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
![]() | This article contains a translation of Anglerfische from de.wikipedia. Translated from German Wikipedia as of September 22, 2009 |
The article represents the "strike" of the frogfish as "the fastest movement in the animal kingdom", we had a quibble on the Fish Quiz about this item. Wouldn't it be better to say "strike" because there are other external movements in the animal kingdom that are quicker, eye movements were the example i gave.....?As stated i think it creates confusion. Dwaink 05:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I think the warty frog fish is really neat. You see my class and I were given an asinment to pick a sea animal and do some reach on it.I had no Idea what I was going to do, so I looked at this book about sea animals and found this very werid looking one that I have never seen so I did it and just doing some reach on it the warty frog fish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.50.99.2 ( talk) 20:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I have some questions for whomever is editing this website:
What does the Frogfish eat? the frog fish will eat any piece of fleshy material it can fit in its mouth, including other frog fish.
The colors. . . do the Frogfish have chamelon-like or octopus-like abilities to allow them to change color and blend? Or did each species evolve to match just one type of coral background? it is a mixture of your last two. you see certain frog fish, like the saragasum frog fish, have evolved to suit their environment by looking more like their surroundings. however most use theiur amazing cromatophores, like octopus, and possibly chameloens, to change color. chromatophores are skin pigments that shrink and expand.
The method of locomation is a little unclear, could it be cleaned up? Is the article basically stating that the Frogfish uses it's appendages to "jump" at it's prey? thats about right. they can swim, but not very well, most often they crawl on their modified pecoral fins, or just lay about waiting for a meal.
I don't object to the number of photos. This is an extremely varied animal; the photos serve an educational purpose.
Thanks. And I apologize if I've broken any Wiki rules. This is my first time. <HAUER> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.169.132.1 ( talk) 00:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
--
Jerzy•
t
23:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I am going to be working on translating the german version of this article hopefully completely within a week. Please find my current draft in my sandbox. -- Jieagles ( talk) 20:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
In section "
Features" in the accompanying article, i am ignorant of whether tube worms within a single taxon are relevant, or the general article
Tube worm (body plan) should be linked, and i left the Dab un-byp'd.
--
Jerzy•
t
23:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
I tried to link a short video that clearly shows both the free swimming and 'jet propulsion' movement of a frogfish. I inserted the link after the word 'propulsion' in the movement section of the article. This link is to a movie I made myself and it is hosted by youtube. I am a avid diver and do all underwater filming myself. A wiki bot removed the link shortly after I had placed it, though I own full copyright. Should I undo the action or not? I think the movie is appropiate (I have read the guidelines about linking youtube movies). Charlesleflamand ( talk) 04:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please look at this video and explain why the small brown frogfish is following the larger yellow one? Is it just tagging along looking for food or has it imprinted on the larger one? The video is 40% down the page. http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-fish-on-earth-include-some-definite-nightm-1709122107 Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors ( talk) 02:55, 31 January 2016 (UTC)