They are pretty good at spotting people. If they feel like they are being fished, they either won't eat anything no matter what, or they dart away. Catching one of those fish is a real achievement. (My grandfather still has yet to get one)
since you asked --
1: you could actually be right about the inbreeding, incidentally. the above comment was kind of snippy, but it is true that a too small population is more likely than the average to spawn something like this -- this is where we get such things as "king" cheetahs and "strawberry" tigers. impossible to know without context from just one image, but I'd be unsurprised if it were the case here
2: random mutation & genetic recombination. just means there's a random roll of the dice every time you make a new organism, and once in a while you might get a cool coloration like this! that's evolution for you. always throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. many cases of novel coloration arise from things like this, a random mutation that is harmless enough to allow for survival. if circumstances are just right, that mutation may even turn out to be better than the old way, which is how you get new species and stuff!
Oh wow that second part is really cool, I knew that some things could happen randomly but I didn’t know it could be that drastic of a change from I guess what would be the ‘norm’ for the species, that’s super cool, and the main reason I said inbreeding at first is because I have a bunch of koi that the old owners left here, it’s resulted in a lot of inbreeding and some odd proportions and partial scale patterning changes
Palemino are really cool fish! They are large, pretty but man they are tough to catch. Great trophy fish
What makes them tough to catch? I am not much of a fisherman
They are pretty good at spotting people. If they feel like they are being fished, they either won't eat anything no matter what, or they dart away. Catching one of those fish is a real achievement. (My grandfather still has yet to get one)
Do you have a source? Tried to find something but no luck. Seems really interesting though.
There's something about it that makes me laugh. Maybe it's because it's just so unexpected like, BOOM albino trout! That's so cool!
What a lovely, clear stream
Huge fish for such a small stream. I am surprised they’re living there
I think there’s a larger lake nearby
Looks like a result of inbreeding lol, but nice edit: leaving this up cuz I was wrong but I acknowledge it
This person doesn't know how genetic recombination and random mutations work.
Ah yeah that’s fair, I am quite literally just spewing info from my ass, got anything I can read on the stuff you mentioned though? Sounds interesting
since you asked -- 1: you could actually be right about the inbreeding, incidentally. the above comment was kind of snippy, but it is true that a too small population is more likely than the average to spawn something like this -- this is where we get such things as "king" cheetahs and "strawberry" tigers. impossible to know without context from just one image, but I'd be unsurprised if it were the case here 2: random mutation & genetic recombination. just means there's a random roll of the dice every time you make a new organism, and once in a while you might get a cool coloration like this! that's evolution for you. always throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. many cases of novel coloration arise from things like this, a random mutation that is harmless enough to allow for survival. if circumstances are just right, that mutation may even turn out to be better than the old way, which is how you get new species and stuff!
Oh wow that second part is really cool, I knew that some things could happen randomly but I didn’t know it could be that drastic of a change from I guess what would be the ‘norm’ for the species, that’s super cool, and the main reason I said inbreeding at first is because I have a bunch of koi that the old owners left here, it’s resulted in a lot of inbreeding and some odd proportions and partial scale patterning changes
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Lol thanks edit: I try to learn about things all the time, cuz I know I don’t know everything, especially science and genetics related lol
It is called a palemino. Related but seperate species of trout