This Dead Fish Does Something Pretty Unexpected After Being Decapitated

Plants and Animals





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Salmon for sale at firsh market. Fawcett5/Wikipedia Commons.

So we've been sent this one a LOT recently, with everyone asking for an explanation – how and why is this fish still flailing about and seemingly trying to escape – minus his head and guts?

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWB3a...]

 

The explanation is a reasonably simple one, and also a pretty common phenomenon as well – we also see the same jerking movements from fresh raw frogs’ legs and diced up squid.