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Meet the mudskipper - the fish that walks on land and breathes air!
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The crabs watching like: damn look at these weirdos💀
@TTV_ Keepitfresh actually some already have
why that skull emoji?
@UC-jNqtOASW8qgPs_9mDqB_w scammer these days...
@UC-jNqtOASW8qgPs_9mDqB_w oh man what a bunch of bullshit you got there bot
@@spikesnake1977 skull emoji is either used to show dying of laughter or just lmao (idfk?????)
2:25 imagine fighting someone and then they say “hol up gotta keep myself moist”
😂👍
😂
"Understandable, have a nice day."
Casually removes pants
@@thefinger1776 AYOOOOO
"Jumping high above the mud will get you noticed" Actually a great life quote
😂😂😂
hardwork with so many obstacles to get laid. 😜
Underrated
Let us not forget our amphibian brain is intact even after all these ages of evolution!
That's actually quite inspiring
* *mudfish fighting to the death* * "hang on bro, moisturising break"
😂
Nah FR
Male mudskipper: *Yeets self into air and hits mud like a wet rag* Female mudskippers: O.O "What a man!!"
Ahaha
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😂😂😂😂😂
I think you mean Ö
If only life was this easy for us
The crab was like: *_understandable have a great day_*
I bet both of you watches sssniperwolf
Such a lame comment dude real original smh
@林 勇 srr
☝️😂
"Have a good relation with the mudskippers, I have"
When I was a kid I saw some mudskippers at an aquarium and I liked them so much that I asked my dad if I could have them and he was weirdly supportive of it and actually asked a nearby pet store if they had any
I wouldn't advise keeping mudskippers, unless you are very experienced in keeping fish. Mudskippers are delicate and very sensitive to environmental conditions, and they have very different needs to other fish, due to being mostly terrestrial. It is quite possible to keep them, but they are best left for the experts.
@@fubberpish3614 well they need their daily walks on the mud 😅🤣🤣🤣
@@Lilly-hh9es "I can't go out right now, I have to take my fish for a walk"
I had a buddy in elementary school that had all sorts or strange animals including snakes, spiders and fish. He had two Mud Skippers and one time while I was staying the night we went into the kitchen to get a snack late one night and found both of them on the floor lol. They had jumped out of their enclosure and were just chilling on his floor. I remember being startled but intrigued 🤣 good times. Ended up getting a tarantula from him and named him Max.
@@MrScorpianwarriormudskipper owners are the only ones who can say that seriously
I like how we’re making fun of mudskippers for their goofy behaviors, yet deep down we all agree that they are cool as hell
man: no one can be ugly and cute at the same time mudskipper: hold my mud
😂😂
Pugs exist u know
Simp
@@user-px8lu4wp6e what?
@@hardchuck1900 Dude stop simping, we know what you’re doing. Don’t act stupid.
Nobody: Mudskippers: (Ö)
This is art
Ha great art
Poggers
Ö
ART INDEED
I love how the crabs are watching everything like "What is wrong with these fish?"
Haha yeah.
60% fish 20% frog 10% snail 10% hippo What an amazing creation
Creation... yeah... totally...
"Creation"? When was it "created". Draw a line in the fossil record of where one thing wasnt this and the next generation was.
@@jasondean88888yeah The Omnipotent who created all these animals...Glory to God
@@mouloudnedri3239 What evidence led you to that conclusion?
@@jasondean88888 are you blind ???? Or what ???? You have eyes to see all these beauty
My friends motivation: "There's plenty of fish in the sea" Me:
The fish be jumping outta the sea to run from me
@@RG_Rizzy LMAO 😂
@@RG_Rizzy 💀💀💀💀
Underrated comment😂
The crabs are like “oh man there goes those land fish jumping again”
Blinking eyes at me crawling use wings jetting my wings do not have strenth saying stupidity
😂
the crabs be vibin
yup, there goes the neighborhood with those land fish jumping! lol
Correction: Horny land fish
My friend : There are lots of fish in the sea... Fish after seeing me: * walks out of sea *
LMAO
I feel like this is evolution in process, fish coming on to land, flippers having joins like a leg
“But life on land is not without problems, it is hard work to find a mate” My life story
Well you have to yeet yourself in the air and land on your stomach if you want to get noticed
Happy lonely san Valentine day
hmu I'm right here what's up?
Then migrate under the sea inside a pineapple. It'll work out
Very hard
These fish be looking like: Ö
Man not funny my name has ömer
More like °-°
When they fight 💪💏🖕
• нoneii • 😭😭😭😭
them fighting >ÖÖ
I saw these little guys on a visit to the mangroves in Queensland, Australia. I did see them rolling over in the mud and yes, it was my assumption that they were doing that to keep themselves moist. To me, it reminds me of a dog rolling over when he/she is trying to please it's owner.
oh yes, they're quite common here in Queensland. they're quite fun to watch, I once even saw a pair of Pug-Headed Mudskippers (one of the larger species) fighting over territory.
Must have been amazing to watch.
Its* (no apostrophe) human* (living creatures aren't owned.)
Can you imagine this was what some of our oldest grandparents used to look like some 400 million years ago? These creatures are truly like living fossils and need to be respected.
the lobe finned fish that evolved into tetrapods looked different than mudskippers.
@@eggrollsoup yes but the main point is, this is modern day version of that fish ancestor all of us land animals share in common. Pretty fascinating imagining that fish ancestor while watching this video.
@@jesmasa1 no it’s not, also it’s not even closely related to out ancestral fish
@@eggrollsoup You are correct of course! But i think you can also make a fair point that these creatures are a modern day analog to the fish that would become tetrapods, in such a way that the concept of "fish leaving the water and living on land" is not ridiculous because there are still fish today living in the amphibious state! But yes, these fish lack essential features that the pre-tetrapods had like proto-fingered digits, lungs, nose/nostrils, shoulder joints, and many other features. But i love animals like this because it contradicts the "implausibilities" that creationists try to argue about. "Really? Fish that walk and thrive on land?" "Why yes, in fact there are still fish that do this lol" Of course lungfish are more closely related to us and are actually in the clade of "lob-bones fish" just like we are! Im rambling!
@@saxoman1 Yes because mudskippers are ray finned fish, hundreds of million years ago lobe finned fish were a lot more common. The fish that tetrapods descended from are like cousins with the lung fish we have today.
At first I was just laughing at how silly they look, but by the end I was just fascinated. Nature is so cool
They would probably say the same about you 😂
@@game_theory2547 LOL I'm sure they would!
@@game_theory2547 They don't think like humans you idiot.
Omer You mean, they don’t insult other mudskippers they don’t know? Yeah, probably they don’t...
@@Zhakurael Nice display of your stupidity. Your iq is in a single digit no doubt 🤦
the little guy looked cute until he started PUKING MUD
It was never cute stop
Correction it's a female
Doser Poser wow ok so it’s her opinion and beside what made it not cute?
And it stayed cute. It blinks and it has a cute burp.
That's he's carrying rocks out it's amazing
They are evolving!!!
Remember watching this documentry as a kid. Its still so satisfying and the nostalgia hits hard
Humans: Use fists to fight Cats: Uses claws to fight Dogs:uses teeth to fight Mudskippers: AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
Ö And when it looks around Ő
They're more like showing dominance than actually fighting
For some reason i read "Humans: Use fish to fight".
They are pogging
Mudskipper: *Jumping to get notice by female* Human: oh no the fish is struggling to breathe *throws on water* Mudskipper: ;-;
@emz ponce no he's not chile
@@BeyondMagical what?
@@vinhphucnguyen4695 Enchantix! Với sức mạnh mới phi thường Diệu kì bụi tiên kia Enchantix!
@@BeyondMagical if that was english would that be Enchantix! Elephants bear the brunt of it the other money Enchantix, or did i just mess that up and insult the language?
@@Tired-Merc yes u did pls never try again you weren't even close
This mans voice can make anything sound interesting
1:41 this is the mudskipper for me😂 the way he spread his flippers and stuck the landing 🩰
^an example of what a female mudskipper would say
Imagine walking on the beach and just seeing a land fish battle royale
😂
That would be something to see I swear-
Fishs:*stop the fight and start looking at you with a face like "you didn't see nothing"
me : * looks at the fish back * NANI-
HAHAH
1:10 did that fish just burp after eating the mud?
69 likes nice
It's a mudskipper, what would you expect but it's cute
Yup it's now 420 likes. Leave it better
But 69 likes is better
I think that was the sound of it breathing in
Crabs in the background looking at the mudskippers: 👁👄👁
Who's the greatest mudskipper of them all? Who can skip through the mud with the greatest of ease? What kind of wonderful guy? Who can jump like a dog without scraping it's legs? Who's got segmented eyes? It's Muddy Mudskipper It's Muddy Mudskipper It's Muddy Mudskipper Show!!
crowd: YEAHHH GO MUDDY!
* craw * like a dog, not "jump."
@@Anthony-bw3mn Okay
@@Strongbad700 👍
Damn it, you beat me to it.
Crab:"what a beautiful day" 0:45 happens. Crab:"what did i just see?"
Something it seems everyday
Frog
Hahaha poor crab
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😂😂
everybody gangsta till fish starts evolving
Marshtomp
Imagine an evolved bobbit worm.....
@@maxaccelerator6155 Quagsire second evolution. Marshtomp 3rd
@@duvipearson6251 no marshtomp second swampert next after marshtomp
Its the mantis I'm worried about
If we’d discovered these guys a few dozen million years into the future, they might have evolved legs and lungs, and we might’ve misidentified them as a type of basal amphibian. Our own ancestors might’ve lived a very similar lifestyle to these guys, pretty cool.
Maybe maybe not it totally depends on the environment they would still stay like this
Evolution is not real. And even if it was that's not even how it the theory works. Fish don't just simply "evolve" into amphibians like it's some kind of linear progression. If that were the case there wouldn't be any fish anymore because they would all be amphibians by now 😂
They already have lungs actually Lungs evolved before swimming bladders Swimming bladders in fish are actually modified lungs In low oxygen water you might find fish go to the surface to swallow some air
They do have lungs, AKA swim bladders Most fish use them for bouyancy control rather than breathing, but in fish that live brackish low oxigen water they often can do both Musskippers have a long way to go before being more than amphibious and our current tetrapods will certainly mirk them if they try but if all living tetrapods were to go extinct and muskippers survive somehow they might actually go all the way
they’d need to have the necessary evolutionary pressure to become more like modern day amphibians. The issue is that the land niches are already filled so these guys may not ever take on the role our tetrapod ancestors did.
"Jumping high above the mud will get you noticed". That's the motto that has informed my life.
0:45 Crab be like: A walking fish?! Now i ve seen everything.
*Crab music intensifies*
😂😂😂
Reza Erauansya Free entertainment for the crabs!
Crab rave starts
😂
Stops in the middle of a fight ‘Just a sec, I need to moisturise..’
😂😂
That’s what ur mom said
@@Michael-xm4ux wut?
@@Michael-xm4ux that insult doesn't even make sense.
Very very very dehydrated 😂
The added sound effects are hilarious especially when it blinks-sssquishhh, shcloop.
dude it’s so cute!!!!
2:08 That crab is just sitting there watching them boys fight like we watch UFC
Lol how do you recognize that
Lol true 🤣🤣
Lol 😂
he serve himself snacks while doing so
He is chilling and watching for free food
2:18 Imagine being a male mudskipper and fighting with another then all of a sudden you’re just like “Oh damn, hold up man. Need to get some mud on me can’t dry out that’d be embarrassing” then you both take like a minute to roll around before literally trying to kill each other again-
@Chicom 3 I’m sorry, what 😃
itsChxrry like fighting someone and than stopping to drink water. Also reported and blocked.
@@marlinanenomeposeidonthdar4677 I’m sorry, what 😃
itsChxrry too funny?
@@awkward-beebs like fighting someone and stopping to finish lunch. Also reported and blocked.
These slimy, muddy fish have earned my deepest respect.
So you have come to terms with your hairy clam then?
I love these little guys so much they seem so chill to have as a pet or smth
2:27 aah that roll is cute as hell😂😂
Hell isn’t cute, AT ALL
cool and moist 😂
“It lives in Japan” Ah makes sense now
I thought it lived in Africa
Yeah Japan intentional or not comes up with the weirdest shit.
we have them here too in Malaysia. i guess u can say they live in some of the Asian countries? 🤔
I saw them twice in my hometown, southern China
Basalt Wittgenstein Without the Communist party, there would be no new China 🇨🇳
Such impeccable timing and editing "food for the mudskipper" and said mudskipper promptly makes a sound that sounds like a very loud human burp
Masha’Allah first time I’m discovering about this kind of fish! It’s so fascinating ,there so many unique animals in the planet
This Allah didn’t create the mudskippers.
0:45 Crab be like “All fun and games till fish start walkin”
Hehehe...
Thats really funny thanks for the laugh haha
Everybody gangster till the fish starts walking
IT tips over xdd
Hammoud AL Ghomaiz not really
“It’s hard work to find a mate.” Same Skipper, same.
Skipper: able to breathe air Also Skipper: free to roam this Earth
It's not mate. He said bait
The way they move is so funny XD funniest and cutest I've seen yet!
These are adorable
The crab watching the mudskippers fight in the background at 2:09 is litterally the *Eats popcorn* emoji lol
Crab: this is a really good fight scene
He even did that he putted his paw in the mouth lolso cute
Fish: "Wanna see me evolve into a terrestrial lifeform?"* Fish 375.000.000 years later: *"Wanna see me do it again?"*
Guilherme Houck Wanna see me evolve to a Extraterrestrial? Evolution: *Loading*
Stay EZ My Friends religion? Preposterous? You mean the belief in the existence of any type of divine god, yah?
My God is Life and im living it, am i religious?😂
Lmao
All these years of evolution and you get my dumb as 😂🤦🏼💀
3:19 *The way it spits it out😂😂*
These little guys look prehistoric. It’s so cute and funny to watch them jump and then splat back on the mud. 😂
No one's gonna mention how they blink it litterally goes inside there skull
Like a frog
It’s for eye Protection
Lots of amphibians do that, look at frogs
Ikr
@@FerroFrog but it’s a fish. It’s not an amphibian.
0:45 that crab was like "Oh cool, a walking fish. What else did I miss"
Strange
stolen
Kimiez PGM No one cares. Some people maybe haven’t seen this comment.
mudskippers when they're mad : 😮
I feel like these things could evolve into something truly remarkable.
According to the accepted understanding we anyway must have quite similar fellows among our ancestors.
Or horribly frightening.
@@angr3819 Good observation. Just think of Australian water dragons or of the boa constrictor...
@@HansDunkelberg1 Komodo Dragons 😮 😯😳
@@angr3819 Thank you for the hint. Another good illustration of the problem is the Jurassic-Park series.
Nobody: Mud skippers when fighting: .. 0
Or .. "Ö"
.. .. 0 O
Matt From Wii Sports 777 this concept of comment setups and getting old.
👁👁 0
I can't hear what they saying when they fighting.
Chasing an enemey: After couple seconds: *uh oh* Time to get hydrated hold on!
Psyber right 🙄🤦🏽♀️😂😂😂
Car, car... GUYS, CAR!
One of nature's most beautiful animals... Very special animal. 1 of my favorite lol as a kid,later in life had 3 of these. Getting ready to get 6 now,plans in motion. Smiling love these little beasties. Blessed be...
God Bless you thanks for taking care of these little mud suckers 😹😹
Zombieland Saga Brought Me Here. Kotaro, you're a genius!
so i'm not alone
Legendary
0:26 It winked at us lol
Someone replied so I'm going to reply too
Someone else replied too so I’m going to reply as well
@@whyhellothere4951 General Kenobi.
@@WindiChilliwack a general what
@@motosaki I wanna woosh you but that just makes the world balanced. It's a star-wars joke.
0:01 me coming out of my room after mom says the guests have left
😂🤣🤣
TK-146 OML 😂
Amazing little critters....I could watch these guys all day!! Lol.
This is truly amazing,I guess in the next million years they will have feet and walk up rite ,the eyes are already up,this a beautiful documentary,thanks for sharing
This thing is gonna evolve into something weird
It’s gonna grow wings. Rule the land, sea, AND sky.
You know that's how frogs came up right?
The Host .. if you seen it
like us?
Because of humans its probably going extinct
2:25 “Hold On lemme moisten my skin real quick" "understandable have a nice day"
You literally just directly copied from a comment m8
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Hold up bro! Time out! I need a quick mud roll"
Someone should totally show these to creationists saying that it's inconceivable to think that some fish walked out on dry land and later became tetrapods.
2:15 *they are fighting* KZhead substitle: [applause]
True lol😂
Because is epic
Male mudskippers: "Imma fight for my girl 😎" Also male mudskippers: "Hold up. I almost missed my skin moisturizing routine" 🤣
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
underrated comment .lmao
this is supposed to be funny?
@@MrZobiwan r u German ?
@@MrZobiwan triggered?
absolutely blissed out in the slop
Evolution in action
The fish normal: :l The fish during battle: •• O
😂😂😂
Lowkey chuckle
the fish during battle:POG FISH
Ö
😂😂😂
Mudskippers when they meet rivals: POGCHAMP
lol
😂
𝙈𝙪𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥
shame that they removed it , and make new ones that twice as worse than one before
(Ö)
Its SO CUTE when they fight.
Aw!!! Its spots are so beautiful, and I love its eyes!!!
When frog get married to fish 🐸 +🐠 =
You know what 😂.
😄😄😄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😃😂😂
LOL
Yah, i think so :d
😆😂Lol ahhh•.°
While two mudskippers fighting, Crab: Where’s the popcorn?
Nah nah, the crab would be like that one dude that shouts Worldstar whenever there's a fight.
@Kenz Charlie Gaviola any problem??
😀😀😀😀
and put on the crab rave 😂
Mudskippers fighting was one of the most funny things i´ve recently seen :D
BBC earth always rocks.thanks brother for spreading knowledge about animals.
0:23 Imagine agreeing to share a room with somebody, then discovering they make that noise every time they blink.
;D
Thank God those were purely sound effects
I eat carrots in the closet for my sensitive roommate.
2:36 aww what a smol boi
He's little "was up?" When he gets out the hole ❤😊
i love how they excavate the tunnels :3
"Jumping high in the mud will get you noticed..." Yeah. By birds.
Dr w
Cipher If I were a bird I wouldn’t go anywhere near these stupid ass lookin, weird ass creatures.
@@MemeLord-nu8mi make your statement clear. Is it I or we?
I was thinking the same thing.circle of life
Cipher My bad, I typed a little to fast there hehe..
0:07 Me coming out of my room after 72 hours of gaming
Like a fish!!!
Good plot for Junji Ito books.
You gotta bump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
Lol
Lol😄
I love them so much!!😭 I lived to find these things and now I can rest in peace
The sound they made is quite impressive.
I always picture mudskippers yelling when they fight just kinda like: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ah. A Zefrank viewer i see
Yeah because you probably saw the video when they yell.
*_Imagine Ryan Bergara's screaming voice there_*
Me: huh, they don't have any claws so I wonder how they dig their-- video: 2:53 Me: ...Oh...
Royal Potato These fish are cool but that was just... uuuuh
SUCC
@@natalialuisdevaldivia1632 what are you a comedian?
NataliaLuis DeValdivia As a Mexican I can confirm we put mud in our mouth to dig holes and live there
😆
The blink is so cool.
this is one of my favorite animals
They are just the most precious things I've ever seen. May they flourish for millennia!
This is the ugliest shit I've ever seen 🤢
@@swervepogba8302 I have to agree
They have the taste of best fish ever I had, in india in Mumbai this fish are very famous
Beautiful ocean view! kzhead.info/sun/fM1moKuPo2h3oYE/bejne.html
Irie Rogue Have you ever seen a blobfish?
Everyone talking about how cute it is, clearly missing the point : this thing will be top of the food chain in 100 million years after a nuclear winter swept us all away.
What? You think so advance I didn't get you 😂
*THE FURUTE IS WILD*
Ali Macen you think T-Rex came out of nowhere 80 million years ago? It was a tiny little thing first. You’re looking at it.
Well I for one welcome our new mudskipper overlords
I would be more scared of an octopus actually, imagine a smart son of a White with eight arms, who can regenerate and change colors. That's Lord Fishus Christ right there
A fusion of Mudskipper is: 🐦+🐸+🐟+🐎
One of the best tasting fish I ever had, cooked with coconut and raw mango.
How did it taste like?? Was it salty with a little banana like feeling at the end of your throat?