Hey, brother!
Ben, We all know and love Finding Nemo - the touching tale of a clownfish searching the ocean fighting off sharks and Jelly and
Anglerfish, to find his son who was kidnapped from him by the worst kind of doctor: The dentist.
Seriously, when people say they enjoy going to the dentist, I pff...
Don't believe you. Finding Nemo is praised for its, although cartoony, mostly accurate portrayal of Underwater sea life
Except for one thing that pretty much makes the entire movie a lie.
At the beginning of the movie we meet Marlon and Coral - Two
Clownfish setting up their new home in a sea anenome at the drop off the drop off and for the first minute
It's pretty accurate
Clownfish do nest in anenomes in a symbiotic relationship
And anenomes actually have poisonous tentacles
Which will kill and eat most things that swim-by, but clownfish are immune to this effect
So the anenome makes a great form of protection for the clownfish and in return the clownfish lures in extra food for the anenome
Truly a great system. Everybody wins unless you don't go back inside when a barracuda shows up, then you get eaten
By a barracuda, which is of course what happens to Coral in the movie
But we will come back to that. Before Coral's unnecessary death
We see her and Marlin watching over their soon-to-be offspring and discussing names
Marlon says let's name this Half Marlin Jr.,
And this half Coral Junior. Notice how he doesn't say we'll name the boys Marlin Jr. and the girls Coral Junior
He just
motions to one half each which you might think doesn't make sense because
How can he assign the names before
he knows the genders ? And maybe just assume
He means that boys and girls will all get the appropriate names
but actually his initial statement is the most biologically accurate because
Clownfish are all born with an
undifferentiated
Gender. It's actually a social order that determines which gender a
Clownfish will be but where it gets really crazy is that a clownfish can actually switch back and forth between male and female
clownfish are what is known in nature as a
Sequential hermaphrodite which means that in any given school of clownfish. There's actually only one male and one female
The rest are all
undifferentiated. The lone male and female are actually determined by size the largest fish of the school will become the
Dominant female and the Second largest fish will become the
non-dominant male. Aims that to me suggests that obviously a woman was responsible for this discovery. Seriously was it gotta be "non-dominant male"
Why can't it just be known that the male is the second biggest fish?! Sorry getting off topic.
I'm not here to fight for fish masculinism. That committee actually meets on Mondays. You better believe I'm coming into that meeting GunsBlazing Jamie!
That's son of a ginga. Anyway, should something happen to the Oh-so-Brilliant
Dominant-female, like say they don't go back to the anenome when a barracuda shows up and they get eaten
By a barracuda. In that case the non-dominant male then becomes the biggest fish in the school and will actually shift
Genders and become the new dominant female. Yeah, who's the dominant female now, Jamie?
Wait... then the next biggest clownfish from the school will ascend from undifferentiated into a non-dominant male. Seriously though,
Do you think the Barracuda would've even noticed the eggs if Coral hadn't over down there?
I mean, it doesn't even seem like the kind of food he'd be interested in
I mean everybody knows clownfish eggs are super high in cholesterol and Barracudas are very conscious about the cholesterol intake so...
Anyway, if you are keeping score at home you may be coming to a
Startling conclusion about finding nemo right about now. Yes if the movie was
Biologically accurate after Coral died, because she didn't go back to the anemone... got eaten... by a Barracuda,
Marlin should have then shifted genders and become the new
Dominant female nemo in these circumstances would actually still be male
But he would also then become the new mating partner of the dominant female
Sooo
Yeah, I think we can all agree that pixar made the right decision to lie to us about finding
Nemo because it is just awesome
And I cannot wait for Finding Dory and Oh is it june yet, please
And my question for you
And everybody else is who is your favorite character from finding nemo that you hope to see in
Finding Dory? Let me know down in the towel section below and I will see you in another life [brother]
These socks are amazing! Guys
Thanks for watching as always
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Countries some of them are hilarious, like Clownfish Safari for Finding Nemo or this one where Ben and I break down the new
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