Happy Thanksgiving!

If you live in the United States, chances are you have been enjoying some delicious turkey today while the rest of us drool from a distance. In other news, today I learned that the zebra lionfish is also called the zebra turkeyfish.

The Zebra turkeyfish or Zebra lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, is a carnivorous ray-finned fish with venomous spines that lives in the Indian and western Pacific oceans. This member of the scorpion fish family has thirteen venomous spines along its back, used to defend itself. These fish are slow-moving and peaceful, but can be dangerous. They have a habit of resting in places hidden from light such as under a rock or a piece of coral. They are immune to each other’s poison. They are solitary fish that aren’t afraid of anything, as they have no natural predators.

via wikipedia

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