“George is my pet goldfish. He was a birthday present, and over the past 10 years he’s lived a very privileged life, swimming in my backyard pond. One day I noticed a bump, and over the next few weeks the strange growth expanded to the size of an olive. Panicking, I told Tristan, the vet at my work, and he confirmed it was a tumour. ‘What can we do?’ I asked. ‘I can operate,’ Tristan said. Over 45 minutes, he cut away the tumour, using tiny stitches and glue to put the wound back together. Then, with bated breath, I waited while Tristan placed my little mate into the resuscitation bucket. Minutes later, his tail started swishing and, before I knew it, he was swimming around, alive and well! Some people wouldn’t consider going to such lengths for a goldfish, but George is family - and for family, we would do anything.”
- Lyn Orton, 50, Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia
In a never-before-seen phenomenon, a fish commandeered the body of a jellyfish for protection. Although it is common for fish to swim through jellyfish tentacles to avoid predators, this particular defense mechanism has never been seen before.
Footage of the incredible moment an octopus bravely hunts down an extremely venomous stone fish off the coast of Egpyt.
The video, filmed by a diver in June this year, shows the large octopus chasing down the creature, apparently unconcerned by its lethal stings.
The filmer later wrote online: “Why does the stone fish not use its incredibly poisonous stings?
“Maybe the octopus is immune to this lethal predator or he is intelligent to a point that he knows how to catch the stone fish, avoiding the dangerous stings.”
