Do fish fear drowning?  Could you get a fish to talk by using the water board technique?
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Water boarding wouldn't work.  You'd need to pull the fish out of the water and make it think it was dying that way.  Then they'd talk.  We have no choice but to use that technique, because some fish somewhere knows the details of a plot to explode a nuclear weapon on US soil.
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where they are 3 types of this. blind fold. strapped to a board or table and lowered under water. 2nd is blind folded and mouth held open and water poured in it. 3rd is blind folded and have a small amount of water dripped on to the face. all 3 give the fear of drowning.
865523
All fish swim with their mouths open at least a little. This is a big part of how water gets to their gills so they can take in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide.
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Simple... fish can breathe in water, as Oxygen is dissolved in the water already. Otherwise, its dangerous for the fish to breathe above water.\n\nn order to live, fish must extract oxygen from the water and transfer it to their bloodstream. This is done by gills, lungs, specialized chambers, or skin, any of which must be richly supplied with blood vessels in order to act as a respiratory organ. Extracting oxygen from water is more difficult and requires a greater expenditure of energy than does extracting oxygen from air. Water is a thousand times more dense (heavier per unit volume) than air, and at 20 deg C (68 deg F) it has 50 times more viscosity (resistance to flow) than air and contains only 3% as much oxygen as an equal volume of air. Fishes, therefore, have necessarily evolved very efficient systems for extracting oxygen from water; some fishes are able to extract as much as 80% of the oxygen contained in the water passing over the gills, whereas humans can extract only about 25% of the oxygen from the air taken into the lungs.\n\nGills are made efficient in a number of ways. (1) A large surface area for gaseous exchange means that more oxygen can enter the bloodstream over a given period of time. A single gill of a bony fish consists of a curved gill arch bearing a V-shaped double row of gill filaments. Each filament has many minute folds in its surface, giving it a sort of fuzzy appearance and increasing the amount of surface area along a given length of filament. Consequently, the surface area of the gills is commonly 10 to 60 times more than that of the whole body surface. (2) A short diffusion, or travel, distance for the oxygen increases the rate of oxygen entry into the blood. The blood traveling in the folds of the filaments is very close to the oxygen-containing water, being separated from it by a very thin membrane usually 1 to 3 microns (4/100,000 to 1/10,000 in) thick, and possibly less. (3) By using countercurrent circulation in the gill, the blood in the filament folds travels forward, in the opposite direction to the water flow, so that a constant imbalance is maintained between the lower amount of oxygen in the blood and the higher amount in the water, ensuring passage of oxygen to the blood. If the blood were to flow in the same direction as the water, oxygenated blood at the rear of the gills would be traveling with deoxygenated water and not only could not extract oxygen from the water but would even lose oxygen to it. (4) Gills have little physiological dead space. The folds of the filament are close enough together so that most of the water passing between them is involved in the gas-exchange process. (5) Water flows continuously in only one direction over the gills, as contrasted with the interrupted, two-way flow of air in and out of lungs of mammals.
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no, because fish have gills (breathe on the outside) unlike us we have lungs in the inside.  In my aquarium tank I have a small mouth Bass & Yellow Perch, when i feed my bass minnows he would have three minnows in it's mouth (minnows literally sticking out it's mouth)/ my perch as well.  They will swim around with half a minnow sticking out it's mouth and act like it's no big deal.  You will see this with bluegill they will take the worm and swim around with it hanging out it's mouth.  I just feed my fish (thanks for reminding me) and I took pictures so if you want to see them just e-mail and I'll send it to you.  \n-About the dead smaller fish stuck in it's throat some fish I catch may puke up fish due to exhaustion.  When i go fishing for walleyes and northern pike I've had them cough up fish on me.  I've had bass do the same.  \n-Death? He could have died due to foul hooking (not meaning snagging) but if it hook in the middle or back of the throat can kill any fish especially if it's kept out of the water to long, just cut the line and release.  It doesn't work out all the time.
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yes, they "kind of" sleep at nights by not photosynthesing. and yes fish can "kind of" drown by the lack of oxygen..
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just imagine yourself along side a serene little creek, calmly holding their heads underwater, one by one, while they fight for air. ;)\n\nA little aggressive, I know, but should make you smile a bit :)
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I would go with a floating Rapala, about three inches long.  You cast it out and it floats until you reel it in.  When you start reeling it dives under water and wiggles like a minnow.  You can also use it as a top water bait by twitching it and letting it sit until the ripples die down and then twitch it again.  This works especially well early in the morning or just before dark.  Good luck.
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No. In fact their pharyngeal area has gill slits and is very different from the throat of tetrapods (terrestrial vertebrates). \nSo sharks can't roar, whatever the movies say :P
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Close your eyes and try some deep breaths. Guess it depends on where you are. Get an aquarium for the office or home, you'd be surprised how calm you get staring at the fish.
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they react to the situation but dont feel it like mammals do.ask a fisherman they say the fish cant feel the hook but they do react to it
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I can't say with any degree of certainty that fish are completely unphased by this experience, but for the most part the holes you make in their mouths by practicising "catch & release" will heal.  They will not affect the fishes ability to eat.  Whether a fish gets over the stress is hard to say!\n\nJust be sure to hold any fish you re-release under the water for a bit, moving it back & forth to get water running over its gills again. \n\nFish have very rudimentary nervous systems, so do not really experience "pain" the way a chicken or a gerbil might.
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Basically, any dead fish can float downstream. Which takes more effort, to just give in to your flesh or fight against it? Not too many people wish to fight it. It is far easier to "go with the flow" than it is to be a light in a dark world.
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by a pair and wait?\n\nYou cant MAKE a puffer fish - only pufferfish can do that (unless your the first pufferfish that can type)\n\nyou could make a body and use a balloon as the STOMACH with some way to pump water into the stomach to approximate the threat resonse of REAL puffers
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When i was little I took my brother's gold fish out of the bowl and tried to braid it's fins....well i didn't really know about fish not being able to survive out of water..\n\nWell anyway, it wouldn't stop flopping around so i rapped it up in the towel and left it on the counter\n\na little while later my mom called "Who left  the fish on the floor!?!" \n\n"I didn't leave it on the floor ...i left it on the counter"\n\nyeah..poor fish
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I have not seen one, but it would not surprise me at all if they are out there. You could probably find one at a sporting supply store. If you can find one you could buy one that is made to look like a mounted trophy (or even use a real trophy fish you have caught). Just attach a spiral holder to the bottom instead of mounting it on a board.
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True lovers of fish will ponder your question & try to answer it for themselves as well. As humans, we tend to evaluated the mental ability of each animal by the size of their brain, an accepted "rule of thumb" by the scientific community. They have not invented a way to measure the dreams, the pains, or the sentiments (the feelings) of our earthly companions. If fish don't show more interest in their dead, their time frame is just quicker than ours & they must get on with surviving, whatever the method.Thanks!