Opah, The Only Known Warm-Blooded Fish

[FMA4ME]

 

[Wailua Boy]

Interesting, I heard about that a while back. All I know opah are delicious.

 

[krichardson]

It looks like a pacu.

 

[xraycer]

I thought tuna had some sort of warm-bloodied function also, which accounted for their tremendous speed.

I used to love eating opah back when I lived in Hawaii

 

[FMA4ME]

It looks like a pacu.

Lol, I thought red hook sd. Opahs a nice looking fish.

 

[krichardson]

Lol, I thought red hook sd. Opahs a nice looking fish.

Yeah it does resemble a silver dollar more than it does a pacu.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

This is on topic rock. Try general next time

 

[Pomatomus]

The opah is the only fish known to have warm blood throughout its body. There are a number of other warm blooded fish though. The tunas and lamnid sharks (including great white) are some examples

 

[SumoNinja]

The opah is the only fish known to have warm blood throughout its body. There are a number of other warm blooded fish though. The tunas and lamnid sharks (including great white) are some examples

tuna and shark are not considered warm blooded. there's a difference between what true warm blooded animals do and what the tuna and sharks do. i'm to lazy to look it up

 

[TankDempsey]

Thought this was really cool, showed my Zoology professor and he didn't even know about it yet.