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Apr 8, 2021 at 3:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackPets/status/1379992494243516421
Apr 5, 2021 at 22:49 comment added lila ... introduction to the water without any immediately apparent ill effects. I was at home the time it happened and thus I was able to determine that fish must had spent between about 20 minutes to an hour laying there outside of the water. It wasn't dried up like a crisp, but had visibly lost quite a bit of moisture laying there and wasn't looking quite right, so its "revival" was a huge surprise to me.
Apr 5, 2021 at 22:49 comment added lila My opinion, since two people already raised their concerns about this question being an April Fools joke: thanks for taking your concerns; it is not up to me to decide whether it is or not, but as a fish owner I have once experienced a thing like this with a small fish that jumped out of the aquarium and I believe this question is legitimate and has a merit to it. My case was a small fish (about 3-4 cm White Cloud Mountain minnow) that I had found laying on the carpet next to the aquarium. It was seemingly lifeless, but revived upon ...
Apr 3, 2021 at 18:37 comment added rackandboneman Seriously... is this an April Fools?
Apr 3, 2021 at 17:18 comment added lila Fish and other cold blooded animals are operating at much lower metabolic rates and thus are much more tolerant to oxygen deprivation; slower metabolism means that their oxygen usage is much less, on the other hand we need to burn a large amount of calories just to maintain a constant 37 °C body temperature.
S Apr 3, 2021 at 16:48 history suggested Michael Durrant CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 3, 2021 at 16:44 comment added Michael Durrant Probably like our cat, it heard the familiar sound of the owners car and jumped out in anticipation. then the owners took a while to unpack hence it dried out while waiting (in a sunny spot say).
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