A lot of amazing lies in its waters the World Ocean, but the fish-moon is simply amazing. A huge monster, slow and awkward, floating out of the depths like a fantastic monster, horrifying with its slowness, inevitable, like fate. This impression leaves behind a completely harmless fish, which has neither a swimming bubble, nor brains, nothing. She floats there, not knowing where to find that, not knowing what.
The terrifying appearance of the moon-fish is made up of the shape of its body, resembling a huge millstone, two fins and some kind of obscure rudiment, even remotely resembling a fish tail. The name of the fish from Latin is translated - "mill millstone". Almost round, flattened from the sides, a giant fish-moon seems to hang in the water, hardly noticeably moving two fins located in the most inappropriate place - the top at the top, and the bottom below. There is no sense from these swimming devices, although the fish still moves in the water, but moves the fins differently and somehow diffidently.
Although there is nowhere for her to hurry. The plankton that feeds the monster, in any case, falls into her mouth, even though she will stand on the spot, even though she sails. As the water still moves much faster than the fish-moon, sooner or later overtake the sluggish lazy and pour into her mouth a portion of plankton. The fish-moon, the photo of which you see, is 3 meters in diameter. A weighs this three-meter "pancake" almost a half tons. If the fish-moon were commercial, it would be killed in two days, as she herself puts her sides, lying motionless on the surface of the ocean.
But God keeps this monster of the sea depths, the fish-moon is not only not commercial, but even if there is not a crust of bread on the whole Earth, and there will be nothing, still nobody will touch its meat, it is so disgusting, with a very unpleasant smell. But this creature has one indisputable advantage - its skin. The shell of the fish-moon is very hard and impenetrable. Even the sharks break their teeth, trying to bite it. This as for the skin. If the shark gets to the fins of the fish-moon, then bites them off without difficulty, and then it ends. Immobilized, it will sink to the bottom and die there.
The intellect of the described ocean monster can not speak. Scientists oceanologists somehow weighed the brain of the fish-moon, and the exact scales showed 4 grams. Since the fish-moon has already entered the Guinness Book of Records (in 1909) as the largest, etc., it is possible to place its brain, the size of a pea, in the same book. Although, as they say, there is no thin without good. If the moon fish is smarter, it is still unknown, no matter how stupid it is in the World Ocean. So it's better to let things stay as they are. Caesar is Caesar's.
In addition to the remarkable heavy-duty skins, the fish moon has one more indisputable advantage - it is extraordinarily prolific. During the spawning period , the fish-moon lays a fantastic amount of eggs, a figure not even in every Russian bank you'll see, about 300 million potential fish embryos. It's scary to imagine if at least half of the planned fry will be born. But the eggs disappear somewhere, where it is unknown.