Learning to Love the Blobfish Through Music…
Remember the blobfish? That unfortunate pile of gelatinous aquatic life with a face on one end resembling a Muppet held over a blast furnace?
Last year it was declared the ugliest animal alive by a group called the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. They did this in an effort to raise awareness for the candle-left-in-a-hot-car known as Psychrolutes marcidus. The thing is, the blobfish isn’t getting a fair shake.
Back in September, Colin Schulz pointed out that the blobfish doesn’t look like that down at its native depth, where its low density flesh and minimal skeleton help it withstand the high pressures and remain buoyant in the extreme deep sea. At home, it looks more like this:
Now Songs For Unusual Creatures hits us with the musical version of “this is really what a blobfish looks like”, featuring an apt soundtrack for such a deep-sea wonder, a face-off between tubax and contrabassoon.
By the way, it’s the rapid ascent at the hands of some lucky fisherman that transformed the blobfish from dashing denizen of benthic origin to something more like a concerned booger with a floppy nose.
Oh… at the end of the video, a bunch of people making hilarious blobfish faces are featured. Fancy showing me your best blobfish impression, science pals?
