White Sand Beaches Are Made of Fish Poop
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- Parrotfish poop out sand… and that’s just the beginning of what makes these guys weird.
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This is my dad's favorite fact. He loves telling people how the Parrot Fish "eats rock and poops sand"
Dad: You're sitting on poop my son :D
me: What?!
+LiquoriceLover yeah, i can relate to that =)
OMG SPIRITED AWAY.
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I wish I lived somewhere with white sand beaches… then I could make a comment about stepping in poop to everyone I saw walking barefoot XD
I knew all this stuff, except for the fact the parrotfish have teeth in their throats! So cool! I always love looking in the mouths of dead fish I find to see what their teeth look like, finding one of these would be amazing!
+Zoe Powell "I always love looking in the mouths of dead fish".... Zoe, you're awesome!
Zoe Powell it's like a bird's croup
I would be slightly concerned on why would you look into dead fishes mouths
@@grossscienceshow that rock has been crushed into a fine sand
Seriously, 11,000 pounds of sand a year?!?!? That's something like 30 pounds of sand a day. Which is a friggin' crapload of sand. What kind of intestinal tract does this animal have
a **crapload**
+Ghost Queen
Touché.
Well Polished...!
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.
I've had the pleasure of watching parrotfish eat coral while snorkeling off the Cayman Islands. You can actually hear an audible crunch when they bite down. Interestingly, the early Mayans believed that the parrotfish was appointed by the gods to be the guardian and keeper of the ocean.
critterfreek82 interestingly awesome
I can envision this as an excuse for someone to get out of taking their significant other on a trip to the Bahamas.
therocksolid lolll
Wait......since the Sands in the world are beginning to be less
We just should make these parrotfish farm
I love this channel. It never does click bait. Especially with those titles you're going to think it's someone trying to get views.
Another new lesson! Thanks Anna
+Edward Tiah You are so welcome, Edward!
I saw parrotfish in a market. They're too pretty to die...
Sand is perfectly perfect
Haha love it!
+NPR's Skunk Bear Yay! Thank you!
@@grossscienceshow that rock has been crushed into a fine sand
You have the ability to fascinate and ruin things at the same exact time...
I have a question. I was told at a science teacher convention in Texas about twelve years ago that the wonderful smell of the ocean isn't from salt in the water but is caused by emissions from Dynoflagellates as they mate. What say you on this?
Well, now we know where does Hawaiian beaches come from. Got it? poop~
I have fallen in love with this channel.
haha those fish are super cute😄
interesting
I thought that alive fishes died and then it turns into sand on the earth and people pick up off the water from the earth
Much of the white sand in Hawaii it composed of storm-broken and eroded coral.
Interesting.
Could parrot fish every poop out enough sand to make enough little islands that there would be no ocean left?
I miss this show
I absolutely love this channel!!!
"Fish pee in you!" And poop, as well, creating the sand you are standing on.
I think they are the only fish known to sleep.
Ohhh damn I vote for more parrot fishes in the Caribbean
Anna........you're awesome!
Rock gets crushed into a fine white sand
So Carribean beaches are made of fish poop? Lovely.
Thats it im done going to stop going on beaches im choosing swimming pools
this is so funny but still a great video
What!? A parrot fish can poop out 30 pounds of sandy crap per day! Interesting stuff, Anna!
I love eating parrotfish, but not too much because of that fact.
They use the mucus to mask their scent
what would happen if we pooped sand we could use it to make more private beaches
Soooo very time white sand is poop!I accidently touch it!
boracays white beach is made up of polvurized shells
in boracay it's illegal to steal white sand from the beach... they dont know what they're stealing and protecting hahahahahahaha
i ate a lot of this fish in childhood
lucky i have never been to a white sand beach!
Is it weird that I keep watching this video for the background music
Beautiful fish, i don't know why people would eat them...
This got me curious. Is the Parrot fish then in danger of being extinct yet, or is it just something, as you said, we have to bare careful not to happen?
+patrick Harlev So, from what I've read, it really depends on both the species and the location. There are a bunch of different types of parrotfish and they live all over the world. As a group, they are not necessarily considered at risk. But some of the parrotfish (especially the larger ones) are considered vulnerable or endangered, and fish living in certain regions are more at risk than others.
I see! Very intresting :) thanks for the great videos!
Yo, let's make some poocastle!
mucus wrap
What's why sometime fishes are crunchy 😒
What about sea cucumber? Don't they poop sand too?
have you made a video on poop transplants, what I have heard it has something to do with bacteria in bowel. but im not sure how it works
But fish poops are healthy you could you use it as face mask
I'm never going to the beach again
SIKE!!
How does it digest sand poop?
Yeah bumpheads pooped a lot!
Wipo is a black sand beach and have been made by broken down rock I would know I live on the road there gusts 10 miles and I'll be there
nvm i found your video.
You are absolutely right! They are very tasty!
Sand is not poop it it's made off rocks
If fire is in glass it is is sand not fish poop *VERY TRUE*
Planet editor?
I thought fish don't sleep?
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+JustPlainEndermen Some don't.
Does the sex change depends on the fish or its nutures' choice?
That is Realli gross!! Haha
Now I know... kinda gross though.
Like is just made of poop
Come to farasan island in saudi araba. The parrot fish comes. Every year in this island
Go to farasan harred in serch
maybe sand is called sand because its between sea and land..... OMG
omg lol i'm gonna tell this to someone later lololol
This implies a good portion of FL sand, inland and coastal, is made of fish shit x.x
Also doesn't anyone else think she reminds you of Rosanna Pansino? :P
take it off!
Thats true 😀
wow.... AWESOME!
Fahhh i use to put white sand in my mouth.
she said WHITE sand
Hi, why are parrotfish called parrotfish?
Nicholas Bunch Probably because it has a beak like mouth.
Wait wut?
When I was small I ate sand, now you telling me sand is fish poo haaaaaaaaaaaaa😭🔫
😃
Wtf is that thing
Uhu tastes so good tho!
Yeah we eat parrot fish on thailand Phuket 😋
does the forst 2-3 seconds of each video remind anyone of funimation? or is it just me
boracay
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Can parrotfish be bisexual??
not fish *poop* fish *s###*
Hmmmm
Now i remember eating some of it~
😎😃
wuuuuuaaaattttt!!!!!!!
So they can become trans that so cool
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so ur name is rothchild? r u a jew?
Try not talking to your audience like we're eight-year-olds.
Try not acting like an 8 year old first.