I went for a walk today and on a whim headed over to the park by the creek downtown. There’s a salmon hatchery there, and I remembered the salmon spawn in the fall, so I checked it out. And they were there! Holy crap, it was cool. They were jumping all over and splashing and stuff. So naturally I took a video:
I filmed a lot more than that, but I cut out some of the good bits. Once you’ve seen one fish jumping, really, you’ve seen them all. The thing they’re trying to jump over in the first part is a fish ladder. For anyone who doesn’t know, salmon swim upstream every year to return to where they were born so they can spawn. After they spawn, they die, and the little baby fry swim out to the ocean, then come back again the next year to start the cycle all over again. The fish ladder mimics them swimming upstream, which looks really hard. That one fish in the video that just leaped over the whole thing has the right idea, I think.
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I’ve never seen that before. So cool!