China Daily News Global Online News: Perhaps many people don’t know about silver snapper, and perhaps there will never be a movement to protect silver snapper in the world, because this ugly fish really doesn’t like people. However, after discovering an extremely rare albino silver shark, scientists feel that it is time to popularize scientific knowledge related to silver shark to the public.
Rare albino silver snapper (American media picture)
According to American media reports, on a cold day with drizzle last year, students from the University of Washington in the United States stumbled upon this silver shark while conducting a survey of marine resources. Recently, this silver shark was officially unveiled.
It is reported that at that time, a lot of silverfish were caught in a net thrown into the sea. Among those dark brown silverfish, Jon, a doctoral student of the school, suddenly found this albino silverfish, which was as pure as a pearl.
Jon and his classmates were very surprised. He said, "Everyone started cheering and clapping. This is the most exciting thing for us."
This silver shark is a female, with a length of 1 foot (about 30 cm). It is estimated that its "age" is about 2 to 3 years old, and it belongs to the "child" in the silver shark world.
Ted, a fish professor at the University of Washington, said that in his 40-year career, he had never seen an albino silver shark. This albinism is rare in the underwater world.
It is reported that silver mackerel is a cartilaginous fish separated from the ancestors of mackerel, and it is still known as a "living fossil". Generally speaking, silver-gray or dark brown, with a slightly dark gray back and a silvery white abdomen, are mainly distributed in tropical and temperate deep-sea areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and usually live on the bottom of the deep sea.
In addition to this silver shark, there are many albino animals in the world that have attracted people’s extensive attention. In May this year, a British woman found a rare albino kangaroo in a rural area of olney, Buckinghamshire. It is reported that the probability of albinism in kangaroos is about one in one hundred thousand.
In January 2006, a rare albino two-headed snake was auctioned at the World Aquarium in St. Louis, USA. With two heads and two mouths, this albino snake has always been a "star animal" in the aquarium.
In November, 2003, Snowflake, the only albino orangutan known in the world, died in Barcelona Zoo, Spain. It suffered from skin cancer and was finally euthanized by the veterinarian because of its deterioration. "Snowflake" was deeply loved by people before his death, and the Spanish were very sad for its departure. (Zhang Chunyan Editor: Xia Ya)
Editor: Fan Jing